Motto: Dear Auntie Em: HATE YOU, HATE KANSAS, took the dog...Dorothy (from t-shirt in Spencers).

VERY ILLEGAL TO WALK ON INTERSTATE: the only state where you can actually get ARRESTED for it. However, the food in HAYS jail is better than I can cook!

The fundamental problem w/KS is 78% of cross country trips go thru it. There also seems to be two paranoid 'concerned citizens' at EVERY on - ramp. Thus complicating the already daunting task of getting a ride...

When I found out the zipcode for Topeka (the capital) was 66606, it all kinda fell together somehow...(remember kids - only AGENTS of SATAN try to stop you from accomplishing anything...)

Single upside: the Mcdonald's still sell dr.pepper instead of mr.pibb.
Ok one or two others: Lawrence library has internet access (one terminal - in basement - 20 minute limit).

(YO JOEY!) in Lawrence..

Also unlike most turnpike states the service plazas on the KS turn pike are run by the state not Marriott so you can't use 'em. YOU wind up at some shithole tollbooth on - ramp in the middle of nowhere...(all you can do is pray and make sure you have a sign that has "east" or "west" when you're behind a toll booth - and don't bother the toll collectors...

THE MOST DIFFICULT CONCERT VENUE TO HITCHIKE TO ON EARTH IS SANDSTONE AMPITHEATRE IN BONNER SPGS, KS.

IT IS:
A: 20 MILES OUT OF KCMO
B: IN A PARANOID SECTION OF KS
C: the KC metrobus DOn'T GO THERE! (Neither does greyhound.)
Not only that, they still hit you for a service charge if you buy your ticket on site. And get this - THE PAVED RESERVED SEAT PARKING LOT COSTS 5.00 while the gravel tire busting 'general admission' lot costs $8.00.
Plus they put paying tour vendors in a dust bowl w/no signs directing people to them...

SANDSTONE SUCKS!

However, the closer you get to Colorado the easier things get.
They're sorta represed sexually tho. I found a stack o' gay porno and an (female body style) inflate - a - date at the Manhahttan on - ramp.
I got dirty looks by Bob Doles advance men in Russell, and I got picked up in Ays by the following:
a state employee w/official tags on the car...
and a closet case from Lawrence who drove me halfway to Denver before making the pass.
His line: "y'know I'm bisexual".
My line: why do want to make your problem mine?
Oh well - I got a big mac out of the deal.

Ahhh, sweet home Kentucky.

Coolness 0 plus 1 for Joey.

UPDATE

WICHITA:
'South main bus goes to KANSAS TURNPIKE GATE' ( for Oklahoma travel...)
WPL 'got the 'net'.
Two blocks from downtown transit mall, need card - 30 minutes tourists given them...

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