{"id":545,"date":"2015-06-24T09:00:39","date_gmt":"2015-06-24T14:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/?p=545"},"modified":"2015-06-24T09:01:49","modified_gmt":"2015-06-24T14:01:49","slug":"day-11-across-kansas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/?p=545","title":{"rendered":"Day 11: Across Kansas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/2015-06-18-09.19.56.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-558\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/2015-06-18-09.19.56-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"2015-06-18 09.19.56\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/2015-06-18-09.19.56-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/2015-06-18-09.19.56-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> We crossed the Colorado\/Kansas border first thing in the morning. It was indeed as flat as everyone says it is, but Chris managed to find several gems that made it more interesting than I expected, as he is bound and determined to not let stereotypes of a place get to him or effect his level of enjoyment and\/or boredom. Here&#8217;s the video:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  id=\"_ytid_93126\"  width=\"700\" height=\"394\"  data-origwidth=\"700\" data-origheight=\"394\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2XW4wS8ngdg?enablejsapi=1&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;modestbranding=0&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;playsinline=0&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;color=red&#038;controls=1&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  epyt-is-override  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>We drove through a few towns off the main road just to see what was there. Not a lot was the initial answer, but halfway through the day, Chris noticed something about a fossil museum, so we turned off into <a href=\"https:\/\/es.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Oakley_(Kansas)\" target=\"_blank\">Oakley<\/a> and went to the <a href=\"http:\/\/discoveroakley.com\/visitors\/museums\/fick-fossil-museum\" target=\"_blank\">Fick Fossil Museum<\/a>. For a free museum that was part of the local library, it was not bad and much bigger and better funded than I had expected.\u00a0The people of Oakley themselves all seemed very lovely.<\/p>\n<p>We got back on the road and drove for a while and stumbled over an actual basilica (as of 2014). The<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Basilica_of_St._Fidelis_(Victoria,_Kansas)\" target=\"_blank\"> Basilicia of St. Fidelis <\/a>in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Victoria,_Kansas\" target=\"_blank\">Victoria<\/a> was truly stunning:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/2015-06-18-14.07.07-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-562\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/2015-06-18-14.07.07-2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"2015-06-18 14.07.07-2\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/2015-06-18-14.07.07-2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/2015-06-18-14.07.07-2-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/2015-06-18-14.14.22-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-563\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/2015-06-18-14.14.22-2-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"2015-06-18 14.14.22-2\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/2015-06-18-14.14.22-2-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/2015-06-18-14.14.22-2-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/2015-06-18-14.14.22-2-300x400.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The interior was as good as any European cathedral, if not, a bit better due to being heavily air conditioned. Another difference was the presence of wheat:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/2015-06-18-15.10.38.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-557\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/2015-06-18-15.10.38-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"2015-06-18 15.10.38\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/2015-06-18-15.10.38-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/2015-06-18-15.10.38-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We carried on after that and spent the night in Salina (that is Suh-lie-nuh, or for those who can read <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/International_Phonetic_Alphabet\" target=\"_blank\">IPA<\/a>,\u00a0\/s\u0259\u02c8la\u026an\u0259\/ &#8211; I&#8217;m mentioning this because I mispronounced it most of the way there) in one of the fancier Super 8&#8217;s we&#8217;ve stayed in. It is amazing how much they vary even being a franchise.<\/p>\n<p>Salina was the biggest city for quite a while, but that said, it was still pretty small and surrounded by even smaller places. I don&#8217;t think we&#8217;ll be moving there. Ideally I think we want to live somewhere mid=sized somewhat close to somewhere bigger. We shall see though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We crossed the Colorado\/Kansas border first thing in the morning. It was indeed as flat as everyone says it is, but Chris managed to find several gems that made it more interesting than I expected, as he is bound and&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,54,56,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kansas","category-oakley","category-salina","category-victoria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=545"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":592,"href":"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545\/revisions\/592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}