Friday night and I made it to Lawrence KS. It's a nice town, but
just as hot as Raleigh. The drive from Conway AR was uneventful
thankfully. The western part of AR is mountainous. I missed a couple
of great photos with tractor trailers on my back bumper.

Just before entering MO after going through the AR mountains, I stopped to visit the Pea Ridge Civil War Battlefield. It was beautiful country side. The Park Service have keep the fields and woods in the
same general configurations that they were in 1863. The second photo
is of a tavern place to stay that was the center of one of the battles within the larger engagement.

From there I, moved into Missouri
and the roads got straighter as the
land got flatter. It was even more
so as we moved over into Kansas. I
stopped at Ft. Scott, both now a
town and and old 1833-1855 and Civil
war post. No outside stockade fence. Most of that is in the movies. Just a collection of buildings that were out on the prairie. The whole
set up was neat.












Sorry about how the photos line up with the story. I haven't figured out how else to do it.

Tomorrow I go to Abilene KS to the Eisenhower Museum and then start following the Oregon Trail and Pony express.