Woke up to a gorgeous sunny morning here in Kansas.

Two firsts this morning.  We saw our first prairie dogs.  There were two we saw running around their little hills out by the rest area.  I guess the big trucks don’t bother them.  Also saw a sign that said “warning.  Snake habitat”.  Needless to say we didn’t let Precious out to pee there!   I figure it’s too cold for any snakes yet but not going to take a chance.

We have a tire that is a tiny bit low.   Greg is keeping an eye on it.  Definitely don’t want to buy tires for this sucker!

Got to Dodge City at about 12 o’clock.   There was a restaurant next door so we went there and ate lunch while they unloaded us.  Two restaurants this week.  Wow!  Lol

Our next pick up was for beef at National Beef.  They had our trailer ready so we are back on the road.   Going back to Bubbas in Elberton, Georgia where they make the Bubba Burger.

We stopped for the night in Tonkawa, Oklahoma.  Pretty neat little place.  There is an Indian Reservation close by and the truck stop across the street has the signs in both English and Tonkawan.   The link below has a bit of their history and their language.

http://www.tonkawatribe.com/profile/profile.htm

DG here:  As expected, the female of this group failed to be awed by or mention the fact that we were in the very city where probably the most famous of all Wild West characters began his now famous career as a “lawman” of the old west. Actually she was excited by it as our GPS took us right by our stop and through downtown Dodge City.  Interestingly enough it appears that they have preserved quite a bit of it and with a little imagination you can see how it must have looked 130 years ago.  We ate lunch at a place that used the old train station as a restaurant and actually had a full size box car in the middle of it where they put the restrooms.  There was Boot Hill museum and Doc Holiday Liquors.  And just like in olden times they still run a lot of cattle through there. Except now they come in on trucks.  And out on trucks 40000 pounds at a time.

We passed a winter feeding lot you will see in the pictures.  There were more cows in one place than I have ever seen anywhere.  Annie looked it up on line and apparently they bring cows to places like this to fatten them up for about four months before taking them for processing.

We also passed the home and work place of a very prolific artist.  There was at least a quarter mile of metal sculptures lined up along a fence three or four deep.  We were going by too fast for me to see very much but what I did see appeared to be characters of people with little signs on them. Very strange.

Found a place for the night. Back on the road in the morning.

Good night and God Bless.