Heading home through Kansas

Mid-America Air Museum

We headed back to Colorado today, saying goodbye to Texas and Oklahoma. Tornados tore through the Dallas area last night causing major damage. Sure glad we left on Monday! Our only stop for the day was the Mid-America Air Museum in Liberal, Kansas. They had quite a large collection of civilian airplanes, especially Cessna and several versions of planes made from kits for amateur pilots. Tomorrow, we’re headed to Beth’s and then home the next day. The day ended with a gorgeous sunset.

Eisenhower's Presidential Plane

So what’s the summary of this trip? First, one of surprise, we hadn’t expected the variety of terrain we saw in Texas. The hill country was truly beautiful, the fir trees in Eastern Texas was something we would expect only in the north woods or mountains and then the Wichita Mountains in Oklahoma felt like land above tree-line. The highlights of the trip was the Pacific War Museum in Fredericksburg and the Missions of San Antonio. The combination of the Sixth Floor Museum in Dallas with the LBJ library also brought back our memories of the 1960s. It was an interesting trip.  
An 11 minute video of this trip with these pictures and more is available on youtube.

Kansas Sunset