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Tonight we are staying at a campsite on top of a decommissioned Atlas ICBM nuclear missile Silo.

The owner plans to make it into a tourism resort.  It could use restrooms.

Old diagrams of the missile silo
The stairwell down into missile control
“post rocks” along the drive… During the settling of Post Rock county there were not enough trees to build fence posts so they quarried local limestone.  These markers were reclaimed from farmland and relocated here
17 hours on blast doors would open for the missile launch via hydraulics
The top of the missile silo, 9 foot thick solid concrete slab.
Kansas wind belt power generation
Mud swallow nests everywhere

We left Missouri today and headed west toward Denver.

The tour was sort of interesting but really geared more toward future plans.  He has an Air BNB room but not a lot else developed,bits mostly dry camping.

Tomorrow we hope to get to Denver then head north to Montana.

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