I think I got lucky in Kansas. I drove through the state in 1994 or 5. It was a heavy rain year and there was tall wheat waving in every direction as far as one could see. It was actually quite pretty. Of course, the air conditioned moving truck helped too.
Garden City route - I've been trying to get information about the trail route through Garden City for several years, I can't get anybody to give me feedback. I asked Matt but it turned out he was already through there. The Kansas coordinator was out that way a short while ago but had to return home. We really need feedback from hikers, there's a total of about 7,600 miles on the ADT, it's hard to keep up. (I'm the chairman of the ADT routing and mapping committee, I live in Utah)
I'm a writer, not currently a hiker, and I'm careful not to load Matt's comments basement with comments but I've written tens of thousands of words about Matt elsewhere. I think of Matt as a modern-day Custer suffering vicariously for the sins of all of us in modernity. All I got for Garden City is something I posted an hour ago: "On Matt Hengst’s latest stroll across America-this leg is a 5,000-mile east-to-west jaunt-Garden City Kansas is an appallingly ugly city but it proves to have kindly inhabitants."
I'm not a hiker, but I'm local to Garden. There's really no GOOD way to walk into town from the east, but IMO it would be better to come in on K156 and take Kansas Avenue through town with a detour down Main Street and back up 8th to Kansas to see the historical district. It's a far less ugly that way and probably safer too. Lots more sidewalks. That route they took is the worst part of town. The road from Garden to Holcomb they started on is probably the best one in terms of seeing the best Holcomb has to offer (it comes into a really nice residential area with 5 foot wide sidewalks instead of a trailer park and a dive bar), but it has the issue they ran into, lots of high speed traffic on a road with no shoulder. It's a trade off.
I'll send you a DM, but this route is very bad through Garden. Our town is very walkable -just maybe not along the highly industrialized corridor. (I mean just look at this video and the comments that people are saying from their impressions)
@@DrDavidThor Wow. If you hike through any industrial part of a city you will get the same results as what we got here. This is the fault of the route makers and is so not an accurate description of Garden City.
I could definitely see with the both of you that the day was cooler, you were both much more jovial and not appearing to be suffering from torture. I must admit, I love seeing Broken Taters, and I know I've mentioned her infectious smile before, but I need to also include her laugh. It brings a smile to my face, which always a good thing early in the day.
Sorry the ADT didn't take you through green space through Garden City (seriously). Some nice trees and a really nice big municipal pool although it isn't as historic as the one it replaced. The previous one was the world's largest hand dug one - big enough where they had water skiing. Bonus the elephants from the zoo got to splash around in it at the end of the season. (Shout out from eastern end of KS).
The southern part of Garden City through town hasn't had any new development in years since the traffic gets diverted north and that's where all the major retail shops are now. Came through there in 1983 on a Saturday night and it seems like all of western Kansas came into town to "drag" main.
I have fond memories of a choice motel in Garden City because I had just missed happy hour in the lobby and they handed me two Miller Lites to take to my room! Hahaha
Yeah. I grew up there. One of my middle school English teacher had been the best friend of one of the Clutter girls. We read the book, but we got a lot of stories about how disrespectful Capote was when he was researching the book. Dude did NOT make any friends in SW Kansas with that book.
@@stitch3163 It probably didn't help that he was flamboyantly gay and it was conservative 1950s Kansas. But just as an example he apparently did things like trying to interview the surviving daughter on her way from the church to the car after the funeral according to my teacher.
Fantastic interaction with the kittens. We have 4 now that are playful and 4 more on the way in a few weeks. Barley water? Never heard of that. Any good? Holcomb? You do know what that town is known for?
Hey Y'all, turtle and kittens and clouds and not 110 degree heat index, a good day. Taters, it's okay to be a bit negative when that's how you feel. I think the bearded man may have played that up a bit though.
She seriously was a bit fed up with Kansas this morning. I was all “hey look at that cool sunrise behind the grain silo” and she couldn’t care less. Also don’t let that pro Kansas troll guy see you say it’s ok to be negative about Kansas… :)
My ex and I were birding in southeastern Arizona once and stopped at one of the few restaurants for miles around, it had a big steer head over the door. We were both vegetarians at the time and we asked if they could make the chili without meat, as there were zero non-meat options on the menu. The look on the waitress's face was pretty memorable. You and Jen seem to have worked out the "I eat meat and she doesn't" thing well. I'm generally vegetarian when my carnivore girlfriend isn't around but when we're together and she's cooking I let her make whatever suits her fancy. She's more picky about food than I am.
I think long distance hiking tends to make you more appreciative of vegetables in general since there’s something you often have to do without. Most of the time when Cheeseman with me, we have been in busier trail corridors, where they tend to accommodate vegetarians at least fairly easy. These more remote locations, though not so much.
"lack of trees"? I can't keep up with the trees in my 20 acre rural property in central Kansas. Spent an afternoon pulling roots of trees spouting in my pasture. Right now it's 67 degrees.
Taters should try tomahawk throwing. When my son was 12, he got to try tomahawk throwing. He did well and enjoyed it. I took him to a friend of mine whois a blacksmith. He made a small tomahawk for Ricky that is just like what trappers carried 150 years ago. I built him a target in the backyard and he practiced for hours. He got so good that he became an instructor for BSA. If she tried it, I think that Taters would like it as an example of practical physics. Nice that you found the turtle. Keep her laughing. Happy Trails. Good Luck, Rick
I feel like as a pudgy bearded guy axe throwing is more on theme versus tomahawks. I do look forward to at some point getting Jen to fling something bladed through the air
@@FirstChurchofTheMasochistHikes Tomahawks are usually just smaller and lighter. More what you would carry on camping trips. They were hard to find in the 1960s when I was in Boy Scouts. We always had campfires and needed to collect wood so, we had the scout axes. They were too nice to risk their handles. I learned to throw knives in the Army. After 50 years, I can still do it. Good Luck, Rick
I used to road bike a lot out in Eastern Colorado, and the dogs on the back roads are merciless. More than a few times having to use my bike literally as a shield between me and a snarling dog. Then I discovered pepper spray, and actually deployed it a couple of times that were particularly dire. People just do not seem to care that their dogs are roaming out on the roads.....whateva!
Matt, you'll be happy to know that the second you saw the pigs and made the comment about the breakfast burrito, I paused the video, got it my car, drove to my neighborhood taco place, got a bacon breakfast burrito, and came back so I could experience this with the highest level of enjoyment. Sorry, Taters...
It must have been good times when all those now almost deserted high plains towns were actually viable.....just too damn bad what has happened to these towns.....add to that the struggles many small farmers are experiencing with commodity prices and depleted aquifers.....not a whole lot of future for many of them.....
Garden City isn''t as dilapidated as this video makes it look. They just hiked though the absolute worst part of town. There's an absolutely beautiful park a few blocks north of that coffee shop they stopped at and a few blocks north of that they'd have had sidewalks most of the way through town and been in a more normal area instead of the part of town where property values are in the gutter. And if they'd stayed on the road into Holcomb they were on they'd have found a 5 foot wide sidewalk that runs all the way through town and a really nice residential area instead of a dive bar and a trailer park. Unfortunate that El Rancho was closed when they got there though. That place is amazing. Thirsty Dawg isn't bad for a dive bar, but it *is* a dive bar and definitely the inferior of the two restaurants.
Two things. First, what would Taters name Garden City, Kansas. Second, I bet she is going to have a kitten in a pocket when she leaves the next morning.
Two years back I thought you weren`t made for hiking in Europe. Now I think differently. For example, you would love the walkable cities compared to these Kansas Stroads.
Has anyone ever come running out yelling you're threatening their precious poochie while its acting like Cujo to you guys lol? Glad so far you've not been bitten!
I remember seeing the movie Cujo while on my trek out west in 1983 in Cheyenne, Wyoming and later camped just west of Cody, Wyoming before heading into Yellowstone and in the middle of the night a man and some dogs came to the lake I was camping at. I got out of there.
They've probably far outpaced me for dog encounters but I've had tons and never got that one. Many, many "he doesn't bite" and futile yelling for the dog to stop. At least one "get him!" When I hear "man's best friend" I think "owner's best friend". The one time I got bit there was no one to be seen.
No, though I have had multiple irresponsible owners telling me it’s fine to kick /stab the dog with my trekking pole. I am also not waving a gun around pointing that at said dog, which I imagine might get more of a violent response from the owner.
Garden City was named after imaginary gardens watered from new irrigation ditches that diverted the inexhaustible (Boy, were they wrong!!) supply of water in the Arkansas River. A similar thing in the Oklahoma panhandle where Boise City (city of trees) was named before a single tree had been planted.
I didn't catch what the pastor was saying to you. He asked if you were married and what was the second part? They just can't mind their own business. I did some searching on the net about the church and organization. The pastor I mentioned that performed the funeral services for someone that attended the church you stayed in got his degree at Calvary in KC. It's where many Mennonites or maybe I should say ex Mennonites go to school. It's on the fundamental side. As long as these pastors that are sent out to struggling churches don't try and convert the congregants to "Calvinists" and split the churches like what's happening in many Baptist churches.
“Are you staying together? Are you married? Are you lying” he was being super nice letting us stay in the church it was just a bit of an odd interaction
@@FirstChurchofTheMasochistHikes As in laying together or lying? That is odd but not surprising. I wonder if he had a certain foot distance he would have required? Oh boy.
He just wasn’t gonna allow the commandments be broken in the house of the lord. If you’re not married they will make you sleep in separate rooms. It’s a fair question if you’re letting someone stay in the church. Could have approached it better. Or more discrete. lol. Doesn’t make it any less akward tho I agree!
Nothing like being judged by some preacher in the middle of nowhere before going to sleep. I’ve learned a lot about Kansas from you guys. My biggest takeaway is this: it’s lovely to be from East Tennessee 😊
I have had a good number of shall we say odd religious folk encounters over the last few years. But in all fairness while this was certainly odd in the way it came across someone willingly opening their doors and letting us smelly strangers stay inside their church does have more justification for that vs say the crazy protestors that we had set up outside my high school a few times. I was just curious what he was going to insist on. Jen sleeps inside and I have to stay outside with the shanty dogs barking at me?
You guys really walked through the worst parts of town, some that I haven't seen in years as someone who lives here. I'm sorry to hear you have this horrible image of our city. Walkable areas are a problem all across the country. Sucks that you guys can't see the beauty in our small town and choose only to showcase the bad and speak negatively about it. You guys went through our downtown area to get to Patrick Dugan's, which is beautiful and a point of pride for us, yet don't show it. Why?
I'm so sorry that small rural towns in a massive and sparsely populated state don't focus on making their roadways and intersections ideally walkable for the rare hiker. After watching your videos and hearing your objective and fair-minded commentary about Kansas I feel sufficiently informed to assert that Kansas is an awful state.
It's really not. If the route ADT took them through Garden is any example it's not a fair take at all. As I and many others have said, this is probably the worst possible route through town. It took them through all the industrial areas and the poorest parts of town. Go a few blocks north of where they were and you see a very different city, full of parks, historic homes, and thriving businesses.
They walked a horrible route. There are so many better places they could have gone. I would have had them walk down Talley Trail. It’s residential but at least it’s geared towards bikers and walking.
I think I got lucky in Kansas. I drove through the state in 1994 or 5. It was a heavy rain year and there was tall wheat waving in every direction as far as one could see. It was actually quite pretty. Of course, the air conditioned moving truck helped too.
Garden City route - I've been trying to get information about the trail route through Garden City for several years, I can't get anybody to give me feedback. I asked Matt but it turned out he was already through there. The Kansas coordinator was out that way a short while ago but had to return home. We really need feedback from hikers, there's a total of about 7,600 miles on the ADT, it's hard to keep up. (I'm the chairman of the ADT routing and mapping committee, I live in Utah)
I'm a writer, not currently a hiker, and I'm careful not to load Matt's comments basement with comments but I've written tens of thousands of words about Matt elsewhere. I think of Matt as a modern-day Custer suffering vicariously for the sins of all of us in modernity.
All I got for Garden City is something I posted an hour ago: "On Matt Hengst’s latest stroll across America-this leg is a 5,000-mile east-to-west jaunt-Garden City Kansas is an appallingly ugly city but it proves to have kindly inhabitants."
I'm not a hiker, but I'm local to Garden. There's really no GOOD way to walk into town from the east, but IMO it would be better to come in on K156 and take Kansas Avenue through town with a detour down Main Street and back up 8th to Kansas to see the historical district. It's a far less ugly that way and probably safer too. Lots more sidewalks. That route they took is the worst part of town.
The road from Garden to Holcomb they started on is probably the best one in terms of seeing the best Holcomb has to offer (it comes into a really nice residential area with 5 foot wide sidewalks instead of a trailer park and a dive bar), but it has the issue they ran into, lots of high speed traffic on a road with no shoulder. It's a trade off.
I'll send you a DM, but this route is very bad through Garden. Our town is very walkable -just maybe not along the highly industrialized corridor. (I mean just look at this video and the comments that people are saying from their impressions)
@@DrDavidThor Wow. If you hike through any industrial part of a city you will get the same results as what we got here. This is the fault of the route makers and is so not an accurate description of Garden City.
OK, I guess you can't contact people directly in RUclips... How can I get ahold of you Bob about this route?
I work in the yard with all the turbine blades and transformers. Takkion (formerly TP&L.) Walked right by my office. P.S. it does kind of suck here
I could definitely see with the both of you that the day was cooler, you were both much more jovial and not appearing to be suffering from torture. I must admit, I love seeing Broken Taters, and I know I've mentioned her infectious smile before, but I need to also include her laugh. It brings a smile to my face, which always a good thing early in the day.
I usually tell people my job is just to do whatever stupid things makes her laugh.
@@FirstChurchofTheMasochistHikes Well, it seems you do a great job of it and is probably why she loves you. Your back and forth banter is great fun.
@@TheWinkingPigBarBQ Yes, the banter is wonderful. Compare it to Joe and Nic's road trip. That's just painful to watch.
Sorry the ADT didn't take you through green space through Garden City (seriously). Some nice trees and a really nice big municipal pool although it isn't as historic as the one it replaced. The previous one was the world's largest hand dug one - big enough where they had water skiing. Bonus the elephants from the zoo got to splash around in it at the end of the season. (Shout out from eastern end of KS).
Y'all managed to hike through the absolute worst part of town. You did find PD's though, so that's a plus.
Super cute kittens😊
The southern part of Garden City through town hasn't had any new development in years since the traffic gets diverted north and that's where all the major retail shops are now. Came through there in 1983 on a Saturday night and it seems like all of western Kansas came into town to "drag" main.
I think you were routed around the stockyards in Garden City. Kansas trivia: the box turtle 🐢 is the state reptile.
I have fond memories of a choice motel in Garden City because I had just missed happy hour in the lobby and they handed me two Miller Lites to take to my room! Hahaha
LOL Kansas is so weird🤣
For a small town in Kansas, Holcomb managed to become the subject of Truman Capote’s “In Cold Blood”. At least it has stray kittens.
Yeah, when the lady stopped because she really wanted to help us her first suggestion was we could stay in the murder Memorial Park
@@FirstChurchofTheMasochistHikes LOL… figures.
Yeah. I grew up there. One of my middle school English teacher had been the best friend of one of the Clutter girls. We read the book, but we got a lot of stories about how disrespectful Capote was when he was researching the book. Dude did NOT make any friends in SW Kansas with that book.
@@krissisk4163 Capote was an odd duck, without a doubt.
@@stitch3163 It probably didn't help that he was flamboyantly gay and it was conservative 1950s Kansas. But just as an example he apparently did things like trying to interview the surviving daughter on her way from the church to the car after the funeral according to my teacher.
You walked right by my house in the video
Thanks. ✌🏻👊🏼
Kittens! Taters nothing but teeth. Looks like she had an enjoyable stay.
Fantastic interaction with the kittens. We have 4 now that are playful and 4 more on the way in a few weeks. Barley water? Never heard of that. Any good? Holcomb? You do know what that town is known for?
Beer. Also there really needs to be more kittens around the places we camp
Hey Y'all, turtle and kittens and clouds and not 110 degree heat index, a good day. Taters, it's okay to be a bit negative when that's how you feel. I think the bearded man may have played that up a bit though.
She seriously was a bit fed up with Kansas this morning. I was all “hey look at that cool sunrise behind the grain silo” and she couldn’t care less. Also don’t let that pro Kansas troll guy see you say it’s ok to be negative about Kansas… :)
Wow you got dubble trail magic today. Hope it keeps up for the rest of the state.
Maybe the pastor thought Taters was your hostage. I'm with Jen, it is worth a jog to see a turtle. Thanks for sharing the adventure.
Human trafficking the old-fashioned way? Escorting them by foot from point a to b…
Oh my those kittens!
Last time I drove thru Dodge City there were wind turbine blades on railcars. Guess I know where they came from now... or ended up.
My ex and I were birding in southeastern Arizona once and stopped at one of the few restaurants for miles around, it had a big steer head over the door. We were both vegetarians at the time and we asked if they could make the chili without meat, as there were zero non-meat options on the menu. The look on the waitress's face was pretty memorable. You and Jen seem to have worked out the "I eat meat and she doesn't" thing well. I'm generally vegetarian when my carnivore girlfriend isn't around but when we're together and she's cooking I let her make whatever suits her fancy. She's more picky about food than I am.
I think long distance hiking tends to make you more appreciative of vegetables in general since there’s something you often have to do without. Most of the time when Cheeseman with me, we have been in busier trail corridors, where they tend to accommodate vegetarians at least fairly easy. These more remote locations, though not so much.
I'm starting to think the lack of tree's in Kansas are from all that axe throwing.
"lack of trees"? I can't keep up with the trees in my 20 acre rural property in central Kansas. Spent an afternoon pulling roots of trees spouting in my pasture. Right now it's 67 degrees.
Taters should try tomahawk throwing. When my son was 12, he got to try tomahawk throwing. He did well and enjoyed it. I took him to a friend of mine whois a blacksmith. He made a small tomahawk for Ricky that is just like what trappers carried 150 years ago. I built him a target in the backyard and he practiced for hours. He got so good that he became an instructor for BSA. If she tried it, I think that Taters would like it as an example of practical physics. Nice that you found the turtle. Keep her laughing. Happy Trails. Good Luck, Rick
I feel like as a pudgy bearded guy axe throwing is more on theme versus tomahawks. I do look forward to at some point getting Jen to fling something bladed through the air
@@FirstChurchofTheMasochistHikes Tomahawks are usually just smaller and lighter. More what you would carry on camping trips. They were hard to find in the 1960s when I was in Boy Scouts. We always had campfires and needed to collect wood so, we had the scout axes. They were too nice to risk their handles. I learned to throw knives in the Army. After 50 years, I can still do it. Good Luck, Rick
Yes those tarmacs going into Kansas cities are dark, narrow and dangerous even for cars!
Garden and Dodge are industrial packing plant towns. Not walking friendly.
Holcomb has a scary history
When Matt and Taters first met, Matt told her he was a member of PETA. She didn't realize he meant People Eating Tasty Animals
I used to road bike a lot out in Eastern Colorado, and the dogs on the back roads are merciless. More than a few times having to use my bike literally as a shield between me and a snarling dog. Then I discovered pepper spray, and actually deployed it a couple of times that were particularly dire. People just do not seem to care that their dogs are roaming out on the roads.....whateva!
Matt, you'll be happy to know that the second you saw the pigs and made the comment about the breakfast burrito, I paused the video, got it my car, drove to my neighborhood taco place, got a bacon breakfast burrito, and came back so I could experience this with the highest level of enjoyment. Sorry, Taters...
Matt’s seal of approval. Which Jen won’t let me get made because it was going to feature coffee, nachos, and bosoms…
Wait for the B roll 🤣
Jen just saw your comment, went to look at what I included, and is now glaring at me over her yogurt...
Gonna miss the Taters😂
It must have been good times when all those now almost deserted high plains towns were actually viable.....just too damn bad what has happened to these towns.....add to that the struggles many small farmers are experiencing with commodity prices and depleted aquifers.....not a whole lot of future for many of them.....
Garden City isn''t as dilapidated as this video makes it look. They just hiked though the absolute worst part of town. There's an absolutely beautiful park a few blocks north of that coffee shop they stopped at and a few blocks north of that they'd have had sidewalks most of the way through town and been in a more normal area instead of the part of town where property values are in the gutter. And if they'd stayed on the road into Holcomb they were on they'd have found a 5 foot wide sidewalk that runs all the way through town and a really nice residential area instead of a dive bar and a trailer park. Unfortunate that El Rancho was closed when they got there though. That place is amazing. Thirsty Dawg isn't bad for a dive bar, but it *is* a dive bar and definitely the inferior of the two restaurants.
Two things.
First, what would Taters name Garden City, Kansas.
Second, I bet she is going to have a kitten in a pocket when she leaves the next morning.
She was actually the one telling me I wasn’t allowed to keep ser puddles
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Two years back I thought you weren`t made for hiking in Europe. Now I think differently. For example, you would love the walkable cities compared to these Kansas Stroads.
We’re actually eyeing a possible Europe hiking season in 2026. Our only real requirement is finding things that are campable and not super crowded
I'm sorry small towns in rural Kansas aren't made for walking like population-dense European cities and regions that have existing for many centuries.
Trust me you guys.
You have not seen the best of Kansas.
This wasn't even close to the best of Garden City....
Has anyone ever come running out yelling you're threatening their precious poochie while its acting like Cujo to you guys lol? Glad so far you've not been bitten!
I remember seeing the movie Cujo while on my trek out west in 1983 in Cheyenne, Wyoming and later camped just west of Cody, Wyoming before heading into Yellowstone and in the middle of the night a man and some dogs came to the lake I was camping at. I got out of there.
@@keithwiebe1787 Yikes good to not stick around for that especially in the night!
They've probably far outpaced me for dog encounters but I've had tons and never got that one. Many, many "he doesn't bite" and futile yelling for the dog to stop. At least one "get him!" When I hear "man's best friend" I think "owner's best friend". The one time I got bit there was no one to be seen.
No, though I have had multiple irresponsible owners telling me it’s fine to kick /stab the dog with my trekking pole. I am also not waving a gun around pointing that at said dog, which I imagine might get more of a violent response from the owner.
@@FirstChurchofTheMasochistHikes Good that hasnt happened! This day in age with everyone being so sensitive lol
Garden City was named after imaginary gardens watered from new irrigation ditches that diverted the inexhaustible (Boy, were they wrong!!) supply of water in the Arkansas River. A similar thing in the Oklahoma panhandle where Boise City (city of trees) was named before a single tree had been planted.
Not quite.
I didn't catch what the pastor was saying to you. He asked if you were married and what was the second part? They just can't mind their own business. I did some searching on the net about the church and organization. The pastor I mentioned that performed the funeral services for someone that attended the church you stayed in got his degree at Calvary in KC. It's where many Mennonites or maybe I should say ex Mennonites go to school. It's on the fundamental side. As long as these pastors that are sent out to struggling churches don't try and convert the congregants to "Calvinists" and split the churches like what's happening in many Baptist churches.
“Are you staying together? Are you married? Are you lying” he was being super nice letting us stay in the church it was just a bit of an odd interaction
@@FirstChurchofTheMasochistHikes As in laying together or lying? That is odd but not surprising. I wonder if he had a certain foot distance he would have required? Oh boy.
As in telling a lie
He just wasn’t gonna allow the commandments be broken in the house of the lord. If you’re not married they will make you sleep in separate rooms. It’s a fair question if you’re letting someone stay in the church. Could have approached it better. Or more discrete. lol. Doesn’t make it any less akward tho I agree!
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You only think Garden is the worst city in Kansas because you didn't walk through Liberal.
And why is Liberal so bad? I didn't actually find Garden City that bad. Nice folks and I liked the coffee shop
Nothing like being judged by some preacher in the middle of nowhere before going to sleep.
I’ve learned a lot about Kansas from you guys. My biggest takeaway is this: it’s lovely to be from East Tennessee 😊
No. You haven't. They just had a consistant bad attitude and needed something to talk about.
I have had a good number of shall we say odd religious folk encounters over the last few years. But in all fairness while this was certainly odd in the way it came across someone willingly opening their doors and letting us smelly strangers stay inside their church does have more justification for that vs say the crazy protestors that we had set up outside my high school a few times. I was just curious what he was going to insist on. Jen sleeps inside and I have to stay outside with the shanty dogs barking at me?
Nothing like judging a state based on the social media comments of some people traveling an extremely narrow path through its most rural areas.
You guys really walked through the worst parts of town, some that I haven't seen in years as someone who lives here. I'm sorry to hear you have this horrible image of our city. Walkable areas are a problem all across the country. Sucks that you guys can't see the beauty in our small town and choose only to showcase the bad and speak negatively about it. You guys went through our downtown area to get to Patrick Dugan's, which is beautiful and a point of pride for us, yet don't show it. Why?
I'm so sorry that small rural towns in a massive and sparsely populated state don't focus on making their roadways and intersections ideally walkable for the rare hiker. After watching your videos and hearing your objective and fair-minded commentary about Kansas I feel sufficiently informed to assert that Kansas is an awful state.
It's really not. If the route ADT took them through Garden is any example it's not a fair take at all. As I and many others have said, this is probably the worst possible route through town. It took them through all the industrial areas and the poorest parts of town. Go a few blocks north of where they were and you see a very different city, full of parks, historic homes, and thriving businesses.
Bob Palin at the ADT society is actively soliciting feedback on the route through town so if you have suggestions I’m sure he’d love to hear them
Day 121 watch. Garden City. Check that off as; “no need to visit.” Onward Bishop and Holy Mother!
This is a very poor representation of Garden City, that trail is not mapped right.
They walked a horrible route. There are so many better places they could have gone. I would have had them walk down Talley Trail. It’s residential but at least it’s geared towards bikers and walking.
Please get out of Kansas! Lol