First of all, I live in Wichita and I'm mad that you didn't stop and say hello. 
. Wichita also happens to be the largest city in Kansas. The two interstates that go around Wichita do just that--go around the city. It's no surprise you couldn't get a feel for it from the outskirts of town.
. Wichita also happens to be the largest city in Kansas. The two interstates that go around Wichita do just that--go around the city. It's no surprise you couldn't get a feel for it from the outskirts of town.Totally no time to stop and say hello. I didn't even get to see draggie, and that was a shame. But yeah, I wondered how far out on the edges I might have been. It made for easy driving anyway, easier than I had any right to expect going through a city on a late Saturday afternoon.
It's a big little city. At least to someone like me, who grew up in L.A. And I love it. It has all the amenities without the crowding. A very good balance. Yes, it is called the Air Capital of the World, but it is becoming less so. Boeing recently decided to move the work it does here to Seattle and/or South Carolina and that will result in the loss of about 2000 jobs here. Also many of the other airplane manufacturers and the unions are having some fraught negotiations. If more jobs are lost, it will be hard for the city, but at least there's still a state university here which will mitigate the losses some.
That's a shame that some jobs are being moved. Well, not a shame for Seattle and/or South Carolina, I guess, but all the same. Wichita sounds pretty cool, and I get what you're saying about the amenities without the crowding.
Your charge of about $2 is a little quirk of the turnpike here. I've had the same experience. Usually you'll travel a much longer distance and pay more, but not a huge amount more. It is very simple to use. But the point of the turnpike is not any advantange over the interstate. Physically there's no difference. The point is to collect money for the upkeep of the road, that's all.
A part of me was hoping they used the upkeep money to make some sort of super-road. Maybe with cheerleaders every half-mile and a free carwash at the end.
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Eighteen Days in America, Part 2
- 03/06/2012 09:06:46 PM
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I also found that KS Turnpike remarkably simple to use.
- 04/06/2012 02:46:28 AM
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Kansas
- 04/06/2012 03:44:46 PM
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Re: Kansas
- 04/06/2012 04:38:17 PM
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Wikipedia claims the KS Turnpikes N/S sections are closer than interstate regs require.
- 04/06/2012 08:08:20 PM
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i love your continual references references to boring wyoming... i drove through there once.
- 04/06/2012 05:04:05 PM
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I'm glad that you didn't get abducted by crazy computer/cyborg boy.
- 05/06/2012 04:49:09 PM
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I really hate driving through Nebraska, and Kansas.
- 07/06/2012 10:05:07 PM
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Yeah, except for Kansas City, Kansas. *NM*
- 08/06/2012 04:22:36 PM
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Just joshin', bro.
- 09/06/2012 04:12:33 PM
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Oh, I don't care if you insult it, as long as your facts are correct. *NM*
- 11/06/2012 04:10:07 PM
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