Traveling Through Kansas: RV Parks and History

by msminnie72, posted in Kansas

Thank you for joining us as we are making our way to the midwest. We love having our daughter travel with us, but 2 weeks is a long time in a small 26 foot 5th wheel. After taking Autumn to the airport, we made our way to the Prairie Ridge Buffalo Ranch in Limon Co. It was a very nice Harvest Host.

We were able to walk around and look at the buffalo during our 1-night stay.
We even took some time to play ping pong and pool during a work break.

As we were leaving, we drove through town and saw that they have a museum. We didn’t have time to stop, but it may be a good place for a break if you like museums like we do.

This is a free museum, but check their hours before you visit.

Welcome to Kansas!

We stopped at the rest area on I-70 in Goodland, Kansas.

Had a little fun while we were here.

The next night we stopped inColby Kansas for the night. We stayed at Colby RV park for just $45 a night. We didn’t unhook, but it worked for us. We were able to walk across the street to a Walmart Supercenter to pick up a few groceries to continue on with our travels.

Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library

Our next stop was the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library in Abilene, Kansas. We didn’t plan this, but it was along or close to our route. This seem to be a thing we have continued to do along our travels. We didn’t have a lot of time due to the weather, so we spent just over 2 hours here. You can definetly spend a lot more time here!

This is his boyhood home and you can take tours of it. Tickets have to be purchased and the tours are limited to 10 every half hour.

The Eisenhowers moved into the six-room home in late 1898 when Dwight was about 8 years old. The house remained with the family until 1946 and opened for tours in 1947. This is even before he became the 34th president of the United States. The family donated the house to the Eisenhower foundation in 1947 after Ida Eisenhower’s death in 1946.

Final Resting place for the 34th president

Here lies the President, First Lady, and their first born son who had passed at 3 years of age from scarlet fever.

The museum

The museum was quite inpressive and we learned a lot about our 34th President. There was a quote in the museum that seems to be a motto of our family as well.

All of his many pins that he earned in his career.

There was a little history of Mamie (Doud) Eisenhower.

So here is something new. This is an 1914 Rauch and Lang electric car. This car belongs to Mamie’s mother and was purchased for $4,300 brand new. It had a range of 13 miles per hour with roughly 100 miles before needing to be recharged. Its top speed was 20 miles per hour.

After leaving the presidential library we travel a couple more hours and we stopped for the night in MO.

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