An Emergency at Home and I Go “Walk about”

We got a phone call that Kitten’s mom was in the emergency room and then was admitted in bad condition.  After much chagrin we determined that Kitten needed to be home to help.  We got the ticket and off she went.  The short of that story was that Grandma got better.  Thank the good Lord.

In the mean time, here I was in Pat and Jim’s driveway alone.  Well, not being one to just sit I decided to go out and explore Eastern Kansas.  I know you think it’s all just flat land and that the best thing that ever happened to Kansas was the Interstate but you would be wrong.

Kansas has among neat things like I mentioned before about the Pony Express and a great Civil War history, Lots of recreation opportunites.  These are in the form of State Fishing Lakes and Corps of Engineers lakes and State Parks and County Parks.  I was surprised as I started to look into it all.

The first was a State Fishing Lake called Douglas County Lake just north of Baldwin City.  This was an absolutely beautiful little lake with several pull outs that made great camping sites.  These areas are primarily for fishing but are not marked no camping and “everyone does it.”  This being November, I pretty much had the run of the place.  Imagine this nice a camping place and no one camping but me.  Look at these photos!

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