“There’s no place like home,” Dorothy said of Kansas. There’s no place quite as bad, more like.
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#1. The entire state is basically dead.
Sunflower field.
#2. Nothing grows here.
Wheat field.
#3. They say ‘it’s quaint’, we say ‘it ain’t’.
Silver Creek Stone Arch Bridge.
#4. You can feel the desolation at every turn.
A schoolhouse, Arvonia.
#5. It’s just so plain.
Monument Rocks, Gove.
#6. Not to mention quite behind the times.
Downtown Wichita.
#7. Having no personality seems to be a statewide thing.
Lucia Day, Lindsborg.
#8. It’s no wonder nobody worth knowing ever came from here.
Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial, Abilene.
#9. They don’t have any real culture to speak of.
Boot Hill Museum, Dodge City.
#10. And their history is pretty uninspiring.
Cowboys at Old Cowtown Museum, Wichita.
#11. Meh.
Bennington.
#12. You’ll be bored out of your eyeballs.
Strataca Kansas Underground Salt Museum.
#13. So don’t expect to be entertained.
Kansas Speedway.
#14. ‘Fun’ is just not in the state vocabulary.
Salina’s Kenwood Cove.
#15. You’ll end up spending the entire time you’re there twiddling your thumbs.
Tuttle Creek Lake Reservoir.
#16. It’s not even a good enough place for animals of any sort.
Bald eagle.
#17. So don’t expect to see any interesting creatures out and about.
Whitetail deer.
#18. The whole place is just painfully ugly.
An abandoned farmhouse near Mushroom Rocks.
#19. A complete waste of space.
Somewhere between Lawrence and Lecompton.
#20. So if you’re planning to visit Kansas anytime soon, you might want to seriously rethink your plans.
Kansas Badlands.
#21. It’s just not worth the trip.
Coronado Heights Castle, Lindsborg.