Jananas

The drive through Kansas is long. Thankfully we split it over two days so it didn’t seem quite so overwhelming. In the car, though, we had been talking about how the Internet age has impacted road trips. Everything is planned now – where you are going, where you’re staying, what time you’re seeing that show in Vegas. It leaves no room for spontaneity. I think that we have a pretty good balance in our trip between the two.

On the drive through Kansas we started seeing signs at the side of the road for Prairie Dog Town: “Pet the Baby Pig,” “Live Rattlesnakes,” “See The Largest Prairie Dog In The World,” “Live 5-Legged Cow,” “See the Live 6-Legged Steer,” “Russian Wild Boar,” “8,000 lb. Prairie Dog,” and “Roscoe The Miniature Donkey.” We were getting excited so we decided to stop and see!

Imagine our disappointment when they were closed!! We were pretty bummed because we’d been talking about it for 40 miles. Jason drove around through assorted parking lots and we were able to get some views through a broken down fence. The aviary had turkeys gobbling away and there were still plenty of prairie dogs.I did feel a little bad for the lone wolf in its circular enclosure. We couldn’t get a good view of the bison/six-legged steer, but we figured that we were already pushing our luck by stepping over the broken down fence to get a closer view. I was also nervous that the evil goose was going to extract retribution!

What totally made up for the let down of Prairie Dog Town was what we saw when sitting in our car briefly before Jason got out to go into the gas station/store.Look carefully through the window. Yes, that is a cat just sitting there on the driver’s seat making a weird hissing face. We laughed even harder when the owner came out and was a stereotypical older crazy cat lady. Sadly, though, Jason missed her trying to get into her car while yelling at her cat to “get back in there”. Really lady, why are you traveling with your cat loose in your car? Does it have a litter box under the seats?

The last part of our roadtrip through Kansas was stopping at a T/A to use the restrooms. They had a whole display full of salt water taffy. It wasn’t vegan so Jason was denied its goodness, but I bought a small selection of the best of the best flavours. I did ignore the strange lady’s advice that buttered popcorn was the best kind (barf!). I also spent $0.50 and  picked up a random figure from a toy dispenser. I was hoping for the mini handcuffs or the bullet necklace. Instead I got this.And yes, that’s my fake grumpy face.