Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Another Day in Kansas + Oklahoma

Day 7 started out in Kansas.

This is about as far as we went into Oklahoma, to pick up 2 geocaches so we could "color in the state."

Then it was back into Kansas, home of Dorothy ("there's no place like home") remembered at a museum in the town of Liberal.

Sunflower signs everywhere...

And lots of interesting silo configurations.

We made a special side trip to see one of the 8 wonders of Kansas...Monument Rocks. They were out in the middle of nowhere. Here's the approaching road...there was a pasture of horses on the left and cows on the road on the right.

Mom and the biggest rocks.

Swallow nests up high on the back side of the rocks.

Pillars.

Dad at Monument Rocks.

The Loop Hole.

Chicken Rock from the front...what a blue sky!

Chicken Rock from the back.

Mom and more rocks...they were all amazing and photo-worthy.

Can you see the Rock Face?

Rock Window.

Leaving the rocks behind...almost looks like another version of Stonehenge!

We stayed in Goodland, Kansas, sunflower capital of the world! They had a replica of one of Van Gogh's sunflower paintings on an 80' easel that was lit up at night and could be seen from the freeway.

2 comments:

Airie said...

Nice Van Gogh!!! Those rocks are really cool too.

Baron said...

natural rock formations were VERY cool, weird to see them like that just out in the open like that.