Most Visitors experience Kansas as a long flat blur on a cross-country roadtrip; a never-ending straight line between the Mississippi River and The Rocky Mountains. I wouldn't argue with anyone who feels it's boring!
For the Traveler, Kansas is a tough sell. But for those who grew up there or spent a lot of time there...there's something that sticks with you. A mid-western solidity, honesty, generosity. There are beautiful wide-open skies, really friendly people, fantastic barbeque! That's what I like.
As a kid, I grew up running around the fields, building tree houses, catching crayfish in streams. I would leave home to play early in the mornings and come home when it was dark. It wasn't dangerous....the fields and creeks were our universe. (that's probably changed now!)
One thing that really sticks with me is the weather and nature in Kansas...it's not spectacular in a coventional Southern California way, but it's amazing. Huge blue skies, giant clouds, tornadoes when the sky goes green, pressure builds and the world goes silent with impending danger. In the summer cottonwood trees shed their wooly fluff which makes it look like a giant snow storm in the middle of s sunny summer day. At night, clouds of fireflies blink remotely over dark lakes. Thunderstorms are epic battles! Hail storms, ice storms...which turn trees, grass, power lines into magical glass sculptures! It's amazing...I could go on and on....
Casual travelers though may not find Kansas the most exciting place in the world, but there are pleasures. The endless skies. Wheat fields that sound like the oceans when the wind blows. If you can stay for a while or better yet grow up in a place like this...it will stick with you!
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