Weskan

Weskan is the last town before "Colorful Colorado" on US-40. So of course, we had to go see the Colorado sign while we were there. A Union Pacific train came through while we were parked there on the border, which provided a great reminder of how these highways ended up where they are today. The transcontinental railroad of the 19th century was second only to the Civil War in shaping the contours of this state. 

Weskan is about twelve miles south of Mount Sunflower, the highest point in Kansas. Like most towns out here, it has a grain elevator. Surrounding the town are many fields, some sown with winter crops, others brown and bare in early May. Trees have been carefully planted around homesteads and buildings, windbreaks punctuating the blustery landscape. Weskan has a Bible church and a Christian Missionary Alliance church -- one of the few CMA churches we've seen in Kansas. The town also has gravel roads, a park with a picnic pavilion, a veterans' wall of honor, and a consolidated school (Go, Coyotes!) Myrick played taps on his melodica near the veterans' memorial.