Currently on vacation

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3. having been born in Wichita

and lived the first 24 years in Kansas...

If you wanted scenery you went the wrong way... at least until you reach Denver.

I've driven that stretch more times than I can count... summer and winter vacations almost every year, hunting trips to Western Kansas every fall (pheasant). some farm work.

Eastern Kansas starting in the Flint Hills has topology... rolling hills, trees, water. Western Kansas... not so much. Flat wheat fields. Eastern Colorado is no improvement. They should have spent to money to put curves into I-70... as it is... from Manhattan(KS) to just outside Denver is hundreds of miles of flat almost treeless land and a hypnotically straight highway.

Kansans may be a lot more conservative than when I was there... but they do appreciate a dollar... and if some energy company comes by and says "we want to lease your land for windmills"... well sure... nothing to do with their philosophy... they all voted for Trump. and probably will again.