Kansas Waterfalls

Today Ben & I went to see some of the waterfalls of Kansas. I'm sure some of you are thinking "waterfalls in Kansas?" Well, they were waterfalls, just not as tall as we've seen before. All of the waterfalls we saw were Southeast of Wichita in the southeast part of Kansas. First up was Cowley State Fishing Lake a little east of Arkansas (Ar-Kansas) City, Kansas. As we drove through and saw the clouds I imagined this is what Dorothy probably saw before the tornado took her to Oz. Luckily, no tornado sightings on this trip. Next up was Orzo Falls. The details on these Falls were sparse, but the newspaper article directing our travels said you can't get to it from the north. So, of course google told us to go from the North. Yeah, we found out why you shouldn't try to get to these falls from the north. As we drove down a country road (its only rained the past few days) I kept hoping we would make it through. Well, we ended up having to turn around. Unfortunately a Honda Civic is not cut out for the muddy Kansas country roads. Thankfully with Ben's help the Civic got out of the mud, but we never did see Orzo Falls. We then went to Butcher Falls, a little north of Sedan, Kansas. Again, not the type of waterfalls we're used to seeing, but it was nice. Last we ventured to Elk Falls, just east of the town Elk Falls, the world's largest ghost town. At least, that's what their web site said, but they need to work on that. It just seemed like another little country town. Elk Falls made me laugh. It was pouring rain, we had been driving for 3 hours by then at least, so we had to go see it. Even though it poured rain, the car sort of got stuck in the mud, and we spent most of our Memorial day out in the middle of nowhere Kansas, I think Ben & I had fun just spending time together.