Favorite Web Sites
There are a few web sites that I either visit frequently or have found to be good sources of information. Lew's is probably the most entertaining and educational (albeit sometimes x-rated) web site I have ever come across. If you visit Lew's be sure and be prepared to spend some time, cry a little bit, laugh your head off and just generally be entertained.
I have become a rabid Tech fan in my old age. I graduated from there and have seemed to have lost interest in other athletic teams for the most part. For schedules, player profiles and tickets.
There are a couple of motorcycle sites here. If you are not interested in motorcycles you probably won't be interested in visiting these.
The 5th Maintenance Bn was my unit when I was in Vietnam in 1968. If you want to see some photos and stories from guys who were there you will find this site interesting.
YeeHa is just a good ol' Texas site with some serious and some funny stuff.
I like to know a little bit about the places I have been and often stop to read the state historical markers. Unfortunately, if you are anything like me, you usually glance at them as you speed by at 60+ and rarely have a clue what they commemorate. This site allows you to go county by county and road by road to read those historical markers you passed by and always wondered what they said.
If you are looking for something different to do on your vacation this year check out the National Parks site for into on how to be a national parks volunteer. You get a tent and three squares and lots of fresh air.
I grew up in a very small town in north central Kansas just south of the Nebraska state line. When the town was founded in the 1860s it was thought to be the most beautiful townsite in the state. Over the years the Corps of Engineers kinda screwed it up by building Tuttle Creek Dam which necessitated a high dike around the north side of town but it is still one of the prettiest places you will find in Kansas. It is located in the hills on the edge of the Great Plains and about 2 miles south of the junction of two rivers that flow through the beautiful Blue Valley. One of these days I will take some pictures of the country side to post on here. I go back there at least once a year to kick the dirt and remind myself where I came from.
George Callison have been lifelong friends. After a career as a college professor he turned to art and has become quite an artist of the things he loves best. His site contains a few of his works.
The Manhattan Free Press was started by another lifelong friend, Jon Brake, with his last $450 in the early 1990s. It has been a long struggle but the Manhattan Free Press is now one of the largest weekly newspapers in Kansas in terms of circulation and a major political force in the city of Manhattan, Kansas. I subscribe to Jon's newspaper just to read his editorials and his quest for good government.
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