Three hundred miles

Come along with us as we travel from Palo Duro Canyon, Texas, to Lake Scott, Kansas. 

Downtown Amarillo. Notice the traffic lights at every intersection. If you drove the right speed, the next light would turn green when you were a block away. 

About 120 miles from the Canyon we crossed the state-line into the Panhandle of Oklahoma at Texhoma. Clever name - part Texas, part Oklahoma.

There was a nice welcome sign.

The Panhandle of Oklahoma - flat, treeless and not very interesting.

When the landscape outside your window is not very interesting, you find other ways to occupy your mind. Like appreciating the design of the ends of pipe on the truck in front of you.

Or noticing the names of streets. Memory Land in Guymon, Oklahoma, a town halfway through the 60 mile drive through OK. 

Yea! The welcome sign greeting us into Kansas.

We crossed the border at Liberal, Kansas.

Liberal is a crossroad of several highways with lots of trucks.

Liberal was also the beginning of many meat processing companies.

As soon as we crossed into Kansas, the landscape changed and we were treated to prosperous looking farms and lots of agriculture. Kansas is the largest wheat producing state and it is planting time.

Lots of tractor activity in the fields.

We must have passed 20 plus feed lots right on the highway. These are huge, covering maybe 40 acres.

Every field has this type of irrigation system. 

We have seen these many times before in other states, but this is the first time we have actually seen them spraying water. Perhaps you can see this one in operation. Maybe a quarter of the ones we saw were in operation.

About every 4 or 5 miles there would be an array of grain elevators...

and nice looking farm buildings with surrounding trees.

If we saw 20 feed-lots beside the road, there were an equal number advertised as being 2 or 3 miles off the road.

There were still the occasional "sipper."

About 4:30 p.m. we reached Lake Scott State Park just outside Scott City. After un-hitching we went for a little walk on a trail that encircles the lake. The whole trail is 7 miles but we only went 3 miles.

On a bluff above the campground we stopped to take a picture of the Airstream. At that moment a deer passed through the adjacent picnic area. Can you see the deer in the center of the picture?

There's the Airstream in the center of this picture. There is one other RV in the campground.

Lake Scott...

surrounded by bluffs.