Kansas

In the afternoon we drove west to Fort Scott in Kansas, which was pretty interesting. This fort served as a military base for the US Army, providing security to the surrounding areas during the middle of the 19th century, a period which included Bleeding Kansas and the Civil War.

Lastly, we hit Harry S Truman's house in Independence, MO. We were in the last tour of the day. Since I knew Truman served as Grand Master of Masons in Missouri, I tried to see if there were any Masonic books in his library but couldn’t get close enough. It was a very long day, but we managed to finish four Jr Ranger programs.

We stayed the night in Lawrence KS, and in the morning hit the Brown vs Board of Education site in Topeka, and then drove across Kansas into a thunder storm. By the time we got to western Kansas it was dark but the lightning looked really cool.