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Saturday, May 8, 2010 - Crossroads RV Park, Lyndon KS

Rail Trail & Old Railroad Trestle, Lyndon KS, May 6, 2010
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

Monopoly Money

During the 1990s I knew all the dot-coms would go to hell, because when I thought about them the only images I saw were rented office space and computers that would be obsolete in two years. There wasn't anything real I could picture; the companies had no hard assets. My stockbroker asked me how I knew the two stock market crashes would happen, and I told him, "When the Monopoly play money starts jerking around the real money you're in trouble."

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