Saturday, May 8, 2010 - Crossroads RV Park, Lyndon KS
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Rail Trail & Old Railroad Trestle, Lyndon KS, May 6, 2010
Rail trail under development
There is a rail trail under development adjoining the Crossroads RV Park. There is about 7 miles accessible from here at the moment. There is a plan to replace this trestle soon with a steel pedestrian bridge. Eventually I understand this trail will extend several hundred miles across Kansas along this old railbed. I think I'll take a walk tomorrow...
Night camp
Site 28 - Crossroads RV Park & Campground, Lyndon KS
- Crossroads RV Park & Campground is a new 42 site park on US-75 about 2 miles north of Lyndon KS. It's nicely shaded and surrounded by farmland with a mile or so of hiking trails.
- Verizon cell phone and Broadband service are available here with a strong signal.
- Locate Crossroads RV Park & Campground on my Night Camps map
- Check the weather here
Sweet, Rich Hickory Milk
Hickory was another favorite. Rambling through the Southeast in the 1770s, the naturalist William Bartram observed Creek families storing a hundred bushels of hickory nuts at a time. "They pound them to pieces, and then cast them into boiling water, which, after passing through fine strainers, preserves the most oily part of the liquid" to make a thick milk, "as sweet as fresh cream, an ingredient in most of their cookery, especially hominy and corncakes." Years ago a friend and I were served hickory milk in rural Georgia by an eccentric backwoods artist named St. EOM who claimed Creek descent. Despite the unsanitary presentation, the milk was ambrosial - fragrantly nutty, delightfully heavy on the tongue, unlike anything I had encountered before.