Kansas!

[OkieKubota]

Brief synopsis of a trip my wife and I took to Wichita Kansas.

1. Car that normally gets 33 MPG in Oklahoma got 44.8 MPG in Kansas because its so flat there.

2. Pretty sure I saw a guy taking a whiz while I was driving down the highway...he was about 3 miles across the prairie...

3. Wind farms are alive and well there.

4. Saw a guy driving a nice ford truck getting cuffed and stuffed by the po po way out in the middle of nowhere...told the wife we were just gonna drive right on the speed limit or a little under...

5. Trees are fairly scarce and it seemed the farther north we went they got even more scarce. Started seeing some trees again when we got back south near the border...took a bit longer to get back into the hills and watch fuel mileage drop back down...

All in all a good trip. Was going to try to make it by Catscratches place but the timing was all off for that this trip. Will be headed back up in a few weeks to pick up my rebuilt supercharger so maybe then...

All in fun!

Lol...

 

[buckdeer1]

Come on,theres no mountains here like in Oklahoma but the roads are smoother and we do have a few trees.However with the drought alot are dying.Glad you had a safe trip

 

[OkieKubota]

Come on,theres no mountains here like in Oklahoma but the roads are smoother and we do have a few trees.However with the drought alot are dying.Glad you had a safe trip

Agreed on the roads...they are smoother for sure! But that seems to be every state that hooks to us...Texas, Kansas, Missouri, and Arkansas...

I think Kansas has rainfall amounts like we have which is roughly 50" a year...did prairie fire kill out the trees in some bygone era (western Oklahoma can also be added into this) and since the root systems died and there really is no way to reintroduce seed (squirrels, tree nesting birds, etc...) is that why there is no forest land?

I just think it odd because every cleared acre in this part of the state if we let it go would all return to forest in a short while...

 

[lakngolf]

you must have had a good tail wind, both ways. That I70 is one long road. We drive to ft Collins, co every couple years. When we get to i70 the GPS says " take i70 for 790 miles" or something like that. One LONG road. Wind was so bad one time, I would hold the steering wheel steady to keep car in road. When we came upon a guard rail, that blocked the wind, I would nearly lose it, I had been holding so tightly.

 

[OkieKubota]

We were on a highway 400 most of the time while we were in Kansas...it was a good road!

 

[catscratch]

What highway did you take for your north and south route?

 

[dogghr]

You must’ve hit a windless day which is rare there. I once filled tank on my motorcycle at 100 miles with it on empty when it usually goes 250. Never rode across there without wind blowing us off the tarmac. Best Harley shirt I own says Get the Hell out of Dodge. Beautiful state especially in June when WW is golden. Don’t care much for smell of the feed lots for cattle butchering but people there are awesome. Even Catscratch and Buckdeer I think.

 

[catscratch]

They came through on the calmest day we've had in months!

I can't vouch for myself but Buckdeer1 is a good guy!

Feedlots stink, as do pig farms. We don't have many of either around my part of the state... but there are some hills.

 

[OkieKubota]

What highway did you take for your north and south route?

69 for a little bit and 169 for the rest...

 

[catscratch]

I don't think I've ever gone north out of Coffeyville. Always take 166 for the east/west part of that drive. We do take 169 south for a ways out of Coffeyville when we go to Tenkiller...

 

[buckdeer1]

You wouldn't have liked it here wed and thurs wind was pretty solid at 30-40.Most of our large forested areas are from catscratch east about everywhere else it's around water or non farmable areas.I see alot of death in cottonwoods along river and hackberry in the hedge rows