Fifth State Line – Kansas

Fifth State Line – Kansas

Thursday 30^th May, 2019

Day 20

Location: Guymon, OK to Liberal, KS

Distance: 48 miles

Temp: 49 – 75 F  sunny

   Wind: not a factor

 

Cumulative climbing distance:  482 ft

Cumulative descending distance:  751 ft

 

We are now biking in the flat Great Plains.  A continuation from yesterday, but with favorable biking conditions.

 

Short distance day given the spacing of towns with appropriated hotels and services.  The bike tour also wanted to visit the “Wizard of Oz” museum, Dorothy's family farm house, and an aircraft museum located in Liberal, KS.

 

 

 

  

We are headed to Hooker, OK and then to Liberal, KS.

 

 

 

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Bricks sold to raise funds to build the house and museum.  Lisa Minnelli was Judy Garland's daughter.

 

Dorothy's bedroom.

 

Inside a duplicate of the Dorothy's family farm house.

  

Dorothy and the tornado shelter.  The museum is in the background.

The "Wizard of OZ" museum has displays for each of the key scenes from the book and film.

 

This is the actual miniature house that was used in the tornado scene in the film.

Rock Island train depot in Liberal.

 

 

 

The Mid-American Flight Museum has over 105 planes and helicopters from the early 1930's to the present, including Vietnam War fighter jets.

 

This is a WWII B-25 bomber.  My father was a flight engineer on B-25's in 1942.

 

 

 I did not realize that Coronado had explored this far north in 1541.  We visited a museum that had artifacts currently discovered in the Liberal, KS area including a Spanish helmet, sword and saddle hardware.