Kansas state flower is the Wild Sunflower. We saw many of them along the highway.
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| Pittsburg, KS was a coal mining area. The coal was mined in pits that have been left and have filled with water. |
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| At a rest stop near Kansas City there was a semi truck load of piglets. We talked to the driver to learn where he was transporting baby pigs. When the piglets are old enough to be separated from their mothers they are put in a nursery where they spend about a week to make sure they can eat regular pig food. Then they are transported to a "finisher" or "Hog Confine" where they spend the next 7 months growing to 250#. You know what happens next. Along the way we saw what a 'hog confine" looks like. It is a big climate controlled barn. Hogs don't have sweat glands so the barns keep them cool. Hog raising is big business in Iowa. |
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| On to St Joseph, MO. We visited the Patee House Museum. This is a beautiful sleigh but I also liked the license plates since we have been collecting fabric ones. Haven't been stopping at quilt shops any more because the Row by Row Experience is over. |
Beautiful lace. How do they keep track?
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| Some of the Wagenblast family came west to Oregon on a wagon train that left from St Joseph, MO |
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| St. Joseph,MO is also the beginning of the Pony Express |
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