That includes some of Kansas’ waterways. The Arkansas, theMissouri and the Kaw are all public rivers. And several other Kansas rivers andstreams meander through state-owned lands.
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Take a slow float down the Smoky.
It's here that the view might be the same as it was 40 or 50 years ago, or even 140 years ago when ol' Buffalo Bill Cody graced the water's edge.
The river still runs as calmly as it did back then, when the likes of Cody, western outdoorsmen and American Indians camped alongside it, or used it as a way of travel. Catfish still find refuge beneath the surface and deer a haven along the brushy embankment.
I grew up near Salina, in a tiny town called Gypsum. When my latest one-tank trip sent me to a lavender farm near Bennington, another town close to Salina, I gave my mom a call.
It was just starting to sprinkle when my mom and I headed north of Salina on old 81 Highway, narrow two-lane roadway that passes through green hills and rural housing developments, as well as one of our state’s wineries. We turned west at an old-one room school, then headed to Alpine Ridge Lane, where Mike Neustrom has been growing lavender since 2002.
I grew up near Salina, in a tiny town called Gypsum. When my latest one-tank trip sent me to a lavender farm near Bennington, another town close to Salina, I gave my mom a call.
