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Oklahoma City and Wichita
Any opinions if it is worthwhile to visit yhose cities, and if yes, what
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Oklahoma City and Wichita
Magiel*Venema asked:
Any opinions if it is worthwhile to visit yhose cities, and if yes, what to see and do? As destinations, or are you traveling through? Oklahoma City has the Indian museum, capitol, the 1995 Murrah Bldg memorial, and Remington Park horse races this time of year. I can't tell you about Wichita. Lawrence and western Kansas have more Old West and Indian sites. |
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Nile wrote:
Magiel Venema asked: Any opinions if it is worthwhile to visit yhose cities, and if yes, what to see and do? As destinations, or are you traveling through? Oklahoma City has the Indian museum, capitol, the 1995 Murrah Bldg memorial, and Remington Park horse races this time of year. I can't tell you about Wichita. Lawrence and western Kansas have more Old West and Indian sites. Dear Nile, We are from Europe and never have been in one of those states like Oklahoma and Kansas. We would like to asee the big landscapes with wheatr, wheat and wheat :-) |
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Oklahoma City and Wichita
On Mon, 09 Nov 2009 10:15:56 +0100, Magiel Venema
wrote: Nile wrote: Magiel Venema asked: Any opinions if it is worthwhile to visit yhose cities, and if yes, what to see and do? As destinations, or are you traveling through? Oklahoma City has the Indian museum, capitol, the 1995 Murrah Bldg memorial, and Remington Park horse races this time of year. I can't tell you about Wichita. Lawrence and western Kansas have more Old West and Indian sites. Dear Nile, We are from Europe and never have been in one of those states like Oklahoma and Kansas. We would like to asee the big landscapes with wheatr, wheat and wheat :-) I lived in Empoira and Whicta, Kansas, for several years and had to find ways to releive my boredom. To see the amber waves of grain you really need to travel west from Wichita. You can get a pretty good feel by following route US-54. That will also take you past lots of grain elevators to Dodge City. But watch out; distances are huge in the American western prairies and mountains. More like the Steppes of Central Asia. Of course, seeing the amber waves of grain you need to come at teh right time of year. Probably about July. Otherwise you might just see huge fields of stubble. I have to tell you honestly, though, driving across Kansas is pretty boring, although that can be a kind of cool tourist experience in its own right. But for truly boring I would recommend driving from around Dallas, Texas, to El Paso. One of the more surprising things in the Wichita area is the Cosmosphere and Space Center in Hutchinson, Kansas. About the time the Apollo space program was being wound down by NASA the college there decided a space museum would be nice. They wrote to NASA about the museum plans, and since NASA had a lot of stuff to surplus, they sent Hutchinson a great deal of good stuff, including a real lunar lander (not used, of course) which serves as the centerpiece of the exhibit. They also have an exhibit on how the astronauts went to the loo in those days of tiny cramped spacecraft. Fascinating. http://www.cosmo.org/ Wichita has a nice zoo. And a sort of outdoor museum called Old Cowtown: http://www.oldcowtown.org/. Frankly, that's about it. I was quite happy when a consulting firm in in the San Francisco Bay area called and asked me if wanted an assignment in San Francisco. I don't think I need to tell you the answer. -- ************* DAVE HATUNEN ) ************* * Tucson Arizona, out where the cacti grow * * My typos & mispellings are intentional copyright traps * |
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Oklahoma City and Wichita
"Magiel Venema" wrote in message ... Nile wrote: Magiel Venema asked: Any opinions if it is worthwhile to visit yhose cities, and if yes, what to see and do? As destinations, or are you traveling through? Oklahoma City has the Indian museum, capitol, the 1995 Murrah Bldg memorial, and Remington Park horse races this time of year. I can't tell you about Wichita. Lawrence and western Kansas have more Old West and Indian sites. Dear Nile, We are from Europe and never have been in one of those states like Oklahoma and Kansas. We would like to asee the big landscapes with wheatr, wheat and wheat :-) The Ukraine is much the same and closer. If you want real wide open spaces I'd suggest Montana or South Dakota, by contrast Kansas is overpopulated Seriously flat |
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Hatunen wrote:
Of course, seeing the amber waves of grain you need to come at teh right time of year. Probably about July. Otherwise you might just see huge fields of stubble. Wheat will be green from March - May; ripe (amber) May to early June. Wheat harvest is in June. Kansas is the place to go to see wheat fields. |
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