Pic of the day

The food's not bad, but why do they have to smother everything with brown gravy?
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No ride today (Scott City, KS)

The weather this morning was misty with wind gusts up to 35 mph, so we bagged it. By early afternoon it had improved, but by that time it was too late to start the 55 mile trek to Ness City, our next stop.
So we walked around town some more and toured the local history museum (El Quartelejo). It was great. The museum is located in a new building and covers everything from fossils of the animals that inhabited the inland sea that once covered this area to the history of local indian tribes, the lives of the pioneers, farm equipment, barb wire types,* etc. They are adding a new wing to showcase the paintings (wildlife and western art) of a local artist who apparently has done very well. And best of all for you cheap skates like me - it is free.

*For reasons I do not understand, barb wire is a big deal in the west. There are hundreds, maybe thousands, of different varieties. In LaCrosse, which we plan to pass through two days from now, there is an entire museum devoted to barb wire. As hard as it must be to make a living ranching/raising livestock, you would think those guys would have better things to do with their time than fiddle around trying to create a better mouse trap?