Sunday morning we crossed into Kansas. When we reached Hays, we turned south after a brief stop at Fort Hays State Historic Site.
We continued south to Fort Larned National Historic Site, where we stopped for a longer visit. Fort Larned was built in 1860 to protect travel on the Santa Fe Trail from hostile Native Americans, and served that purpose for almost 20 years before it was abandoned.
From there we continued mostly south to Tulsa Oklahoma. I was hoping to eat dinner at a Hard Rock Cafe there, but learned when we got there that the location only had a casino and hotel. We decided to drive all night to give us more time in Florida, so we continued southeast though Arkansas and Mississippi and reached Mobile Alabama the next morning.
We stopped at the Memorial Battlefield park in Mobile to stretch our legs a bit, although we didn't tour the USS Alabama there, then continued east into Florida.
