Wunnerful. I actually enjoyed Kansas, but I did miss my mountains. I loved sitting in the porch in Dodge and watching the storm fronts roll in, seeing the lightning drop across the entire storm front. I don't miss the tornadoes. The Hesston Twister passed within 1/2 mile of our house, an experience that still haunts my daughter and one that I don't ever care to repeat.
I love the Rocky Mountains--they're magnificent. We try to get to the mountains every five years or so. But, after about a week or so, I start feeling penned in. The eye can't sweep from horizon to horizon
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Danged skippy. The drugs, violence and crime were out of control. Not to mention the 387,4566,086 cows that killed any chance at opening an aromatherapy business. Only town in America that smells worse is Jerome, ID. Potato processing is a very smelly business. Peel the potatoes with chemical then pump it out to settling ponds, where it rots. Ugh.
I've never visited Dodge. I keep meaning to get there during their annual celebration, but I haven't made it yet.
What is it about some towns that become overwhelmed with illegal drugs? And, of course, crime and violence follow. Our city had a problem with meth for a while, but diligence seems to be curtailing that activity. Now, we are fighting men without morals or conscience who are selling drugged potpourri and bath salts to minors. One young man under the influence ran onto the highway into a semi's path, and that's the end of his story. That didn't deter the men at all, as they were making fabulous amounts of money preying on children. The citizenry got involved, and the men will probably rue the day they didn't give a cut to Uncle Sam, as it seems their big mistake was not remitting tax on their sales.
Interesting about the potatoes. I'm more familiar with the smell of livestock slaughterhouses. That will turn your stomach.
I love to travel and always appreciate the different sights, but after being hemmed in by skyscrapers or blocked in by mountains, I'm happy to return to the prairie and the endless sky.
Willa grew up a little over two hours drive away and a little under a century away from me. Her best literature concerned the prairie and the people who lived there.
One of the things I like about great expanses of water is that they evoke the feeling of freedom and eternity like the prairie.
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What is it about some towns that become overwhelmed with illegal drugs? And, of course, crime and violence follow. Our city had a problem with meth for a while, but diligence seems to be curtailing that activity. Now, we are fighting men without morals or conscience who are selling drugged potpourri and bath salts to minors. One young man under the influence ran onto the highway into a semi's path, and that's the end of his story. That didn't deter the men at all, as they were making fabulous amounts of money preying on children. The citizenry got involved, and the men will probably rue the day they didn't give a cut to Uncle Sam, as it seems their big mistake was not remitting tax on their sales.
Interesting about the potatoes. I'm more familiar with the smell of livestock slaughterhouses. That will turn your stomach.
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I still prefer my Blue Ridge Mountains, tho. <3
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The Rocky Mountains are so beautiful, but I'm always glad to come home to the prairie.
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We rarely get the chance to have so much sky over land - too many hills! But I get skies like that over water, sometimes.
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One of the things I like about great expanses of water is that they evoke the feeling of freedom and eternity like the prairie.
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