Day 23: October 24, 2024
Unplanned Side Trip
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The breakfast spread at the Midland had a Czech lean and a coffee machine that was so deceptively simple that I had to ask another guest for help. She explained it without embarrassing me then asked how I liked my bierock. That it was seen as useful to include the word "cold" in the tag for the plate of rather plain looking rolls should have tipped me off to the fact that they weren't all that plain. "They're stuffed with things like ground beef," she told me so I cut mine open before taking a picture and before I bit into a surprise. Rather tasty and, although I may not make bierocks part of my breakfast every day, I won't run from them either.
I parked in front of the hotel overnight and returned to the car this morning to discover that I had been "mooed". This was afirst for me and, although it definitely seems harmless enough, I don't yet know enough to say whether I'm in, out, or indifferent.
Of course, a town with the World's Largest Czech Egg is sure to have a few smaller eggs around too. That last picture is of the other side of the big egg with the hotel in the background.
When I came across this map-on-a-rock about three miles east of Canton, KS, I did not really consider the wide range of possibilities in the word "Local" and immediately set off on what would turn out to be a 35 mile long side trip. The drive stair-stepped along property lines and was likely never part of the National Old Trails Road and definitely was not part of its 1925 route. The mostly unpaved route of the local tour did cross the path of the Santa Fe Trail in many places and several key points on the trail were marked.

Here is a mostly unreadable view of the sign at French Frank's Trail Segment. What might be a predecessor of the D.A.R. trail markers stands across the road from the cluster of signs at Cottonwood Crossing. At Lost Spring Station, I got both readable and not so readable sign photos.

I reached Council Grove in plenty of time to photograph the Madonna there. And I got the unique panels too. This was the Madonna of the Trail that completed my first visits to all twelve in 2016.
I did not reach Council Grove in time to get a room at the motel where I stayed in 2016. It was completely book but I found this room at the Cottage House. It was in the rather plain looking addition but these photos are of the historic older areas.
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