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Kansas Trek Day 1 — 13 April 2017 Vance and I (Marc) got on the road at 8:00 in Vance’s 2009 Porsche 911. The speedometer goes up to 200 mph (but it will only do 180).   We started out on US 40 from Albuquerque but took a detour onto Route 66 to see (hear) The Singing Highway.  This is an amazing stretch of road where grooves have been cut into the asphalt. When you drive over them at 45 mph, your tires play a snatch of “America the Beautiful.” This was created by National Geographic magazine. Why don’t they do this everywhere? We rejoined I-40 at Moriarty (we had to) and made our first pit stop at Clines Corners, a tourist trap of the highest order. I took over driving at Santa Rosa.  We stopped at Nara Visa to snap some cool old buildings and an ancient drill press sitting on the sidewalk. Soon after, we left New Mexico and headed into the Texas panhandle.     We got to Dalhart, Texas, in time for lunch,
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Day 2 — 14 April 2017 Got up this morning and opened the curtains. Found a wind turbine immediately outside my window. They’re everywhere! And the wind was really howling again today. After a tasty (?) Best Western breakfast, we were on the road by 8:45. Our first order of business was to backtrack 10 miles to Mullinsville to see the outsider artwork of M.T. Liggett. He is an amazing, prolific sculptor in (primarily) junk steel, with a strong right-wing political bent to his work. Most of his pieces are posted along the fence on two sides of his property, and along another fence along Highway 54 just outside of town. Most of the pieces in this secondary location were kinetic, whirling in the howling wind under a heavily overcast sky. His collected work was overwhelming, whimsical, and disturbing. His is an unusual genius. If you'd like to know more about him, check out this link: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/M._T._Liggett   Below are several shots that cover only a t
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