Kansas Road Trip
8/24 • From Cedar Bluff Overview, KS to Black Mesa, OK
Cedar Bluff Overlook • South of WaKeeney, KS
Cedar Bluff Overlook (about 20 miles south of WaKeeney, KS and I-70).
I spent the night here so as to be ready ASAP to shoot the sunrise.
When I got here I watched the lightning storm way far to the north as it drifted eastward.
When I woke up this morning everything was wet from the dew.
I also encountered some zero-visibility fog on my way to breakfast!
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Monument Rocks • North and east of Scott City, KS
It's on private property and marked as a no-drone zone. I was hoping to fly through the arch!
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Little Jerusalem Badlands State Park • North and west of Scott City, KS
About 1/2 mile hike on a very hot day.
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Point of Rocks in the Cimarron National Grassland
Talk about hot – it was 109° here today! But it’s not too bad because the humidity was only 14%.
And the wind! Had a really hard time flying my drone. The wind was pushing it everywhere.
When I was trying to land, it kept trying to blow it off the edge of the cliff I was standing on.
This spot is all about the Santa Fe Trail.
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5th stop
Colorado - Kansas - Oklahoma 3 Corners State Border Intersection
Just west of Elkhart, KS, this spot is the intersection of Colorado, Kansas, and Oklahoma.
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6th stop
Preston Boundary Monument at OK-CO-NM Tripoint
Another 3 points. Preston Boundary Monument at OK-CO-NM Tripoint
Just north of Black Mesa, this marker denotes the connection point of Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Colorado.
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7th stop
Sunset at Black Mesa State Park & Nature Preserve • near Kenton, OK
More like a sunset hiding behind a storm cloud that would later unleash lightning and rain for the next 3 hours.
This time I was actually at the preserve, but flying high above the mesa.
Black Mesa is the highest place in Oklahoma.
And again, I'm assuming because of the impending storm, the wind was buffeting the daylights out of my drone.
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Spent the night at Black Mesa State Park
at Lake Carl Etling near Kenton, OK
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