m uncertain if my age is driving my intrigue and appreciation for infrastructure when I travel, or whether it’s marveling at engineering, or both.
Either way, I found myself gawking at such feats in two places during a road trip across the Midwest this summer. One was in Carmel, Indiana, while the other came out of left field, or perhaps more accurately, a corn field in Hays, Kansas.
Both cities were along our drive on Interstate 70. My girlfriend and I traveled east along the highway with stops in Denver, Kansas City and Indianapolis.
The highway was also a subject of intrigue as we witnessed the evolution of broken-down, worn, and rutted stretches of I-70 through most of Colorado, but one of the cleanest, nicest stretches of highway perhaps anywhere in the country through Kansas.
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The trip was also my first time going cross-country, which was another thrill to see the vast landscapes, rivers, and little towns dotting the landscape. In Kansas, part of the infamous Tornado Alley, we saw signs of a recent storm or twister as billboards, trees and some structures were ripped to pieces.
As we made our way through the state, it was time for a pit stop, and Hays (home to the famous Fort Hays) was our destination. We exited I-70 and all of a sudden, boom, there was a roundabout.
