Welcome to Kansas

Minden Nebraska

osceola said:

Yes, there are attractions nearby! Almost every time I've attended the "Husker", i've gone to "Pioneer Village" in Minden about 15 miles north of Franklin. Neat collection of old stuff in a 1950's type museum.
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http://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/2157

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There is a great B&B just North of Minden I stayed at last September on my way out to the Black Hills.

http://www.nebraskabb.com/listings/burchellswhitehillfarmhouseinn-minden-nebraska.html

The scenery is, well, Nebraska cornfields, but the family that runs it is great. The house is spotless and they have a very good restaurant in a separate building.

I ride it with smiles

Many have said the plains are sooooo boring! Not me. I've enjoyed reading all these posts, of active riders in Kansas. I'm grown up in Virginia, lived in CA for 30+ years and find the prairies so refreshing to ride. I'm a long time GS/GSA rider and would love the opportunity to spend time there, riding all the dirt byways. Its not what what your mind see's on the horizon, so much as what your mind takes in as you go along. So many, too many miss the point!!! Back roads America is where life starts getting exciting. Randy

This is the kind of summer I remember in Kansas. Moving back here from NC we have had mild summers. Makes it hard to ride.

Ride early and ride fast. Sunday's ride in the cooler temps was really nice.

Tom

There is a certain peace, droning along a two lane state road in western Kansas or eastern Colorado, where you can see the next town on the horizon by its grain elevator, even as you leave the town you are in. Old cars and trucks, abandoned buildings and old store signs, people living much as they have lived in my lifetime. The sameness and lack of change stop time and reassure you that you have a home.