By You all recognize this from the mystery courthouse photo the other day. It’s the Grant County Courthouse. In Ulysses. And the newspaper. Don’t know why, but didn’t take many photos in Ulysses.
Stanton County
Along US 160 in Stanton County.
Saunders
Home Again. Back to the Western Kansas photos. This is the return trip from Colorado in May. Entering Kansas on US 160, we come to Saunders, an unincorporated town. Well, just an elevator, actually. And a skinny elevator at that. Yes, home again! The only mountains are in the sky.
Cordova Pass
Mid-May in Colorado. This road was closed higher up, due to 10′ of snow covering the road. This was about at 9,000 ft. We didn’t get above timberline. For me, that’s where the magic of the Rockies is – way up there. I love Rocky Mountain National Park. Maybe that’s because it was my first …
Camp Amache
After Coolidge, comes Colorado. Here you get a break from Kansas, Kansas, Kansas. Near the small town of Granada, Colorado is the ruins of a Japanese Internment Camp, Camp Amache. (See photo from 1943 of what it looked like then.) And this is pretty much what the whole camp looks like now. No buildings remain. …