Abilene, KS

When Gary and I set out on this adventure we decided that on year 3 we would travel to middle America.  As Gary was planning the route, he was looking at Kansas and checked TripAdvisor and Planet Ware for things to see.  The #1 thing that came up was the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Museum and Library.  So, we lumbered 5 hours down the road from OKC to Abilene, KS to visit Ike.  Kansas is.....green.....and flat.  We rolled into our RV Park and woke up the next morning to get to the museum. 

We entered the visitor's center where I happily started to shop.  While shopping around we heard the lady at the register tell people that the museum is "closed for renovation". HAHAHA!  We just looked at each other and started laughing.  We felt like there had to be a "punked" camera around and someone was about to jump out saying, "gotcha!".  No such luck.  Just like everything else with this lifestyle, sometimes you just shake your head, smile, and take it in stride. 

We renamed ourselves The Griswold's and bought our admission tickets to the library since it has been set up with a few exhibits from the museum, a timeline and placards briefly describing Ike's life in chronological order.  We also got tickets for the tour of his childhood home.  At the end of the self guided tour we visited the grave site.  It ended up being a great experience!  We learned a lot about Ike and what a great man and president he turned out to be.  After visiting here I can honestly now say, I LIKE IKE!