[pct-l] Kansas City tourism

[blisterfree at isp01.net (Brett)]

> Kansas was not always flat.  The central Kansas uplift 
> exposes several
> hundred million years of rock deposits, thus it is an 
> eroded flat, previous mountain
> range . . .


Pretty sure the great plains used to be an inland sea, 
(before my time) hence all the marine sediments exposed here 
and there by more recent tectonic forces (and erosion).

Remember that Ed Abbey described the plain states, and 
midwest in general, as "mysterious." Unlike the mostly 
uninhabited (and traditionally mysterious) mountain and 
desert lands to the west, which nevertheless revealed 
themselves to even the casual visitor who would climb a peak 
or stand amidst an empty waste, the well-populated midwest 
remained the greater mystery to ol' Cactus Ed, whose 
journeys by car through this region revealed only the 12 
mile horizon and a culture vaguely familiar and yet 
completely foreign.

Parkey, the Kansas interstate freeway kangaroo mascot, might 
agree. Utterly mysterious.

- blisterfree

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