Caching Milestones through Kansas

We found our first Kansas cache this morning, just outside the hotel in a live oak tree. 

We found our second Kansas cache at the world's largest ball of twine.

It's really big!  It certainly smells like twine, and looks like twine, and feels like twine.

We hadn't planned on another one before the oldest active cache, but it turns out the geodetic center of the United States is about 14 miles away from the giant ball of twine.  There are two caches there.

We found Mingo!!!  This one is the oldest active cache.

We skipped the 6th oldest active cache (or 7th?) because it was just too hot.  Red's thermometer said 104 at one point, and it was 100+ for all of the afternoon.  We drove through more corn than I ever had imagined.  Corn and beans and wheat were the main crops. The sky was a nice blue with hardly any clouds.  We were on US-24 and 83 today.  We crossed US-183, which was cool, since we live just a couple of miles from it.  We found its other friend US-283 as well.  Nice to see the family all close together-like.

We found our first Nebraska cache just as we crossed the state line.  Tonight, we're in North Platte, NE.  We never saw South Platte or plain old Platte.