Monday April 18; 11:30 am

The prevailing winds from the south have been no help yesterday afternoon and this morning. Very stiff. I'm not sure of my destination this afternoon. It all depends on the winds.

You can tell you're in Kansas because there are white grain elevators in every town. In many cases, when you're in one town you can see the tops of the grain elevators in the next town rising out of the end of the road. Kind of comforting. Yesterday one elevator was blinking on and off. It was a partly cloudy day, so when it was in the shadow of a cloud you could not distinguish it from the blue\grey sky.

I like Kansas. In fact Platt where I am right now (in the library) has what I have always imagined as a typical midwestern main street. Gotta take a picture.

(Dick ended today's trip in Kingman, Kansas, about 35 miles east of Platt.)