Hold up! This was an unexpected opportunity... So I was driving through Lakin on my way to my starting destination for the next morning and wondered if the courthouse might be illuminated. When I got there, I realized it wasn't, but there was some ambient light. Maybe, I though, I could do some kind of … Continue reading 375. Lakin, Kearny County (KS014) →

If this courthouse wasn't built by the WPA, I'll eat a hat. A hat made of food, mind you, but a hat nonetheless. It's handsome, but the biggest thing it had in my eyes at that moment was that it was quite unlike many of the others I'd been running into at that point. Variety … Continue reading 374. Syracuse, Hamilton County (KS013) →

Oh, Mother of Crap, what is that...thing? I'm not going to go so far as to call it a crime against architecture and an affront to courthouses everywhere, but I will most certainly think it. It just makes me...sad. And they built this to replace... ...this lovely creature? I'm sure there were issues of modernization … Continue reading 373. Tribune, Greely County (KS012) →

I'm a little amazed that I could even dictate notes with all the wind blowing everywhere! I mean serious, midwestern hardcore gusting! At one point, the wind blew my car door shut on my leg, leaving me limping around while I did my thing. Some of my dictated notes don't even make sense because of … Continue reading 372. Sharon Springs, Wallace County (KS011) →

This is a very stately courthouse, punctuated by a little bit of color. I like it. It seems like something you might find at a university, but with just a little bit of something to tell you that this is not just your boring old building. I feel there's a certain irony to the fact … Continue reading 371. Goodland, Sherman County (KS010) →

By the time I got here, I was a bit surly. It took me a lot of time to get here because I wanted to avoid dirt roads, but one of those crappy dirt roads that I didn't want to drive on led directly to the cache. That alone would probably have saved me thirty … Continue reading 370. Saint Francis, Cheyenne County (KS009) →

Much better. This is much nicer than the last couple of courthouses I visited. That said, it was really weird seeing some kids playing around the courthouse, and then stop and stare at me as I drove up and parked. I'm not used to being an oddity like that. Turned out that the guy who … Continue reading 369. Benkelman, Dundy County (NE02) →

Oh, Nebraska! You know what the difference between Nebraska and Kansas is? Nebraska is like Kansas with more hills. Well, as I can tell this far. It's not like I'm driving deep into the state. That said, coming up to and into Nebraska was nothing but corn fields going up and down. As for the … Continue reading 368. Trenton, Hitchcock County (NE01) →

Remember what I was saying about clock towers back in Colby? Well, that only really works if there's an actual clock in the tower, as opposed to a faux clock tower. Perhaps there was one there once and it was removed for some reason and not replaced. And yes it looks nice, but it's just … Continue reading 367. Atwood, Rawlins County (KS008) →

This place literally looks like an elementary school. No joke. It looks like a smaller version of where I went. I can't say I dig this, but it obviously does the job so I guess I'll shut my pie hole. At least there is a cute little pupper out front for adoration (if you're into … Continue reading 365. Oakley, Logan County (KS006) →