Kansas is flat. Kansas grows a lot of crops. Kansas has a lot of storms. Kansas also returns us to the land of humidity and bugs.
The great thing about being flat is that our cell phone signal was essentially uninterrupted, so I could research and general bop around on the internet until I chose to drive because I was bored.
The great thing about Kansas having lots of crop fields is that they put Jesus in many of them.
We stopped at a truck stop for burritos at some point, and that was entertaining. You have not had good people watching until you've sat at a lonely truck stop for awhile. Try it.
As the sun went down, we stumbled into a camping area, a storm just on our tails. I was thrilled to see lightning bugs again, as they don't have them out west, but we quickly had to close up the van against the threat of vicious mosquitoes.
Though the weather forecast originally predicted a 30% chance of rain, the storms raged that night. Lightning pierced through my closed eyes and invaded my dreams, and thunder rocked the van. I was grateful for Vincent, because tent camping in a storm isn't that great.
The next day I was sweaty, pock-marked by mosquitoes, and exhausted.
The first brewery we planned to hit was closed, so we had to come up with an alternate plan, quickly. That lead us to Little Apple Brewing Co, which is located in a strip mall with a Jo-An Fabric, a Hobby Lobby, a Smoothie King, and a tanning place.
We did not meet anyone cool at Little Apple- they have table seating instead of bars. Unfortunately, they were out of many of their beers, so we got what we could. My brown ale was very tasty, if not really warm. The burgers were outrageous, though. They serve Certified Angus beef, and it is mighty tasty, if you're into that sort of thing. The warm German potato salad was also delightful.
Next, we tried to scrounge up a second brewery, but nothing was coming together. It was also very, very, very hot, and we were losing momentum very, very quickly with our little sleep.
We came up with the most no-brainer thing to do in Kansas: The Oz Museum.
It was pretty adorable. I feel like a lot of people have grown up watching "The Wizard of Oz" - generations, at least. Walking through the halls of history and memorabilia was fun. We sat in the theatre section for awhile and watched a few scenes from the movie as it played, too.
After the Oz Museum, we tried to brainstorm next steps, and other than obtaining large, cold beverages, we really couldn't come up with any plans. This made Kansas officially our shortest stop in any state. We decided the next step was the east part of Nebraska, with stops in Lincoln and Omaha, so we pointed Vincent in that direction, took great big swigs of our great big cold drinks, and off we went!
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