Hello from Dodge City, Kansas.  We arrived here on Thursday in sunshine and have been in sunshine since then.  Of course it is getting ready to rain tonight and probably on and off tomorrow.  We will be on the road for that heading to Pueblo, Colorado. 
Dodge City is cowboy town.  Friday we went to the Boot Hill Museum.  We spent about 3 hours in the museum and walking the town fronts.  We learned about Dodge City and all the scandalous goings on.  We looked at the headstones (mostly crude wooden crosses) on what is left of Boot Hill Cemetery and also learned how it got its name.  The first person buried there was a cowboy who was buried with his boots on.  We learned about the Indians who originally inhabited this area and the Santa Fe trail and all the buffalo that were here.  We learned that the military wanted the Indians gone and so they encouraged the slaughter of the buffalo.  We read the story of Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson and all the lawmen that cleaned this town up.  On Saturday we took a free trolley ride around the town and out to Ft. Dodge.  Ft. Dodge is the first settlement here and it was a military post established to protect the settlers and those traveling on the Santa Fe trail.  Last night we went to the Boot Hill Casino for dinner.  Lovely evening with great steaks.  Naturally the steaks are amazing we are in cattle land. 
On our tour we were told that the two meat processing plants average 6,000 cattle a day each.  That is an amazing amount of beef!!!
Today we took a ride to Meade, KS to the Dalton Gangs Hideout.  We walked the tunnel that they dug between their sister's house and the barn so the people of Meade wouldn't see them.  We walked around the sister's house and then went to the small museum.  We are all things cowboy and bad guys now. 
We are home now hoping that the thunderstorms blow the other way but not sure that will happen.  The wind is blowing like crazy right now and the dust is like a fog outside.  We are inside with the air conditioner on. 
Well that was our stay in Dodge City.  It was a good stop on our westward journey and Colorado here we come.