Farewell to Chris and Dave’s 20×40 foot backyard pool. This is a very big pool and the cover is entirely automatic.
And here’s the dog Lucy, a real charmer and a go-go girl.
I started out for Salina (pronounced Sah-LIE-na). Here they pronounce the river the Ar-KAN-zes and they pronounce the state AR-ken-saw. Plenty of other words have unknowable pronunciations.
Here are a couple snaps in Salina. Sunflowers are a thing in both Kansas and Missiouri.
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Next stop, the Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum in Abilene.
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Here’s Ike and Mamie, and my family – my mother, father, older sister, and me. And that’s my dad, the very image of IKE although you can see it more prominently in his younger days.
