I've been to the geographical center of The Yoonited States

and I now understand what is wrong with murica. I wonder if you can guess what is there.

It is a little park in north central Kansas. I went on a road trip this weekend and we stopped there to take pictures. There was a marker, a flag and something else.

If you guess right, you get a prize.

If so, I wanna be reincarnated as a pigeon.

If that had been there, I would have had heart failure on the spot and would not be posting this evening.

but no cigar.

but you are so warm I am sweating.

and if I get more than one guess

Abandoned car
No Trespassing sign
No Loitering sign

but they could use one.

No on other answers too.

I have not been there for several years. I can't imagine, well I can. The 10 commandments? A church? A petition to sign to kick GLBTQ people out of the state? Preachers? Ohh....Ohh....Ohh....Adam and Eve statues?

for you to participate in my contest because you are a Kansan. BUT I do like you so I will go ahead and award you the prize.



It is a chapel with a sign over the door that says PRAY AMERICA!!!!

Hence, the reason they need a porta potty since the urge to vomit was quite strong. But I held back, being the strong woman that I am (and there were children present).

So we decided to stop for lunch in a little town down the road (I think it was Mankato?) at the Red Rooster Cafe. The good news is that two of us ate for $10 - chicken fried steak, mashed potatoes, salad, veggie and dessert - plus drinks. The food was also great. The bad news - we got there just in time for Christian Karoake!! 'Bob' also sang a Johnny Cash song. But the Christian music was clearly the audience's preferred choice. They clapped and had requests. :)

Being married to a musician, I have not been exposed to much karoake. I guess you could say we are 'purists' when it comes to the music we listen to. I am not even sure if I am spelling 'karoake' right. But until today, I had no idea it was a Christian hobby. But then again, for those who live so close to the geographical center of the Yoonited States and are reminded to PRAY AMERICA, I guess singing about gawd in a cafe is perfectly normal.

Muse, if this is typical Kansas culture, no wonder they are wanting to throw out evolution. These folks have clearly not evolved themselves.

It was not there when I was last there but as I said, it has been a while.

Christian Karoake? (I have no idea how to spell it either) HAHAHAHAHA!

God, THIS is what has happened to Kansas. Not 20 years ago you would never see this kind of thing. It was the habit of everyone here to not discuss your religion or ask others about their religion, it was NOBODY'S business. I remember hearing about the religious right coming in to make Kansas an example and by GOD they did it didn't they?

:hi:

with all these damn mega churches.

But Christian Karoake and the PRAY AMERICA sign trumps the mega churches.

But please let me assure you we are far better off than our neighbor to the north. We spent the weekend in Nebraska. 99.9% of the folks up there drive gas guzzling Murican made pick up trucks. And I never saw so many Hummers in my life. All over Nebraska. The local news was full of stories about farmers fighting for water. Our friends there told us they do not have the underground aquifers we have here in Kansas. But they must have oil wells, they sure spend a fortune keeping their vehicles fueled. Gas was $2.50 a gallon there, and $2.20 here in Kansas.

And every little bitty town has a car dealership - full of pick up trucks. The town we visited - 600 people, 2 bars, and a HUGE Dodge dealership.

BTW, we went to a blues festival. It was awesome. This little town puts it on every year. There is an old hippy lawyer there who started it about 12 years ago. We had a great time. The headliners were Tab Benoit and Jimmy Thackery. So at least they have better taste in music in the Cornhusker State.

Last I heard our aquifer was not doing too well, it was becoming very dry. I am not sure how it is fed however, I don't think they have had all the rain they need out there and I doubt they get much from us but I honestly don't know.

I am paying almost $2.50 for diesel here.

I am glad you had fun. Hummers in Nebraska huh? I can believe the trucks but Hummers I don't get.

I find Karaoke otherworldly enough, Do they do any popular tunes, or just that subspecies of Christian tunes?
By popular, I mean like Jars of Clay or ToadTheWetsprocket, to name a couple of christian but mainstream bands....

to look at their songlist. While we were there, Bob sang Christian songs, a Johnny Cash tune and a Glenn Campbell song.

:o

but I am sure it is only a matter of time.

and I walked all around it.

But to the left about 20 feet is the chapel with the sign that says

PRAY AMERICA

:shrug:

so I'm glad they got something.
:bounce:

was the best thinker. Muse has been there and lives in KS so she knows how they think here. But fair is fair, Muse got it first.

I made the long way across Kansas too many times when I was going to college in Denver and came home to visit in Ohio... Lemme just say that drive is HELL... for eight hours it is nothing but cows, those oil <or water> pump looking things, sunflowers, and grain..

True, the first hour is quite picturesque etc...

And I love the little cow-town that boasts its claim to fame along the interstate "Birthplace of Bob Dole!"

and all those wheat fields and natural gas wells you can see from the highway stand for money - and lots of it. My dad grew up in western KS and we spent many vacations in his hometown visiting relatives. I grew up in the big city but befriended a lot of farmer's kids in college. Wealthy doesn't describe their status in life - stinking rich is more like it. Sure, there are struggling family farmers all over Murica, but some of the wheat farmers and ranchers in western Kansas are incredibly wealthy. I had one friend in college whose dad owned a cattle ranch in western Nebraska. She could draw a line around her dad's ranchland on a map. That is a hell of a lot of land. I also know a gal who grew up on a family farm in SE Kansas. Her dad discovered natural gas on his land and is now one of the wealthiest men in Kansas.

So laugh all you want at the flat land while you drive across the state. Those farmers are having a good laugh all the way to the bank.