I’m not sure everyone understands the work that goes into, not just the recording and narration, but also the production of a video like this. Astounding work.
Excited to begin your Hwy 50 Travelcade! Agree with you about the Flint Hills! Beautiful vistas! And the primitive rock structures such as found in Florence and Peabody are easily by-passed, but so worth a stop to see for those of us who appreciate old stone buildings. Great work, and thank you!
Thank you! I would’ve liked to have shown more of the Flint Hills in this video but I’ve done some previously and I didn’t want it to be too long. The Flint Hills are great!
I have a lot of memories of that section of US 50. I lived in Hutchinson and my Grandparents live in Miami County which is on the Kansas Missouri border.. Once a month, our family would pile in the 1940 Chevy and take Hwy 50 to vist all of our relatives. We would get off of the highway at approximately Franklin. The road then was a gravel road. One vivid memory was in the Florence where the railroad paralleled the highway. The old stearm engines would be bellowing out black smoke. In good weather the smoke would go up and in bad weather the smoke would come out of the smokestack and then roll down to the ground. I especially enjoyed your looks at the small towns. Towns such as Elmdale and Stafforville were a few miles from the highway. We never got off the highway to explore those towns. i look forward to the rest of your US 50 trip.
As a Geologist, I LOVE the Flint Hills. The drive on Highway 177, north of Strong City, through the Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve, is breathtaking in the Spring.
This is great. I was born right on Highway 50 back when it reached Oakland, grew up within walking distance. When it was replaced with interstate 580, me and a neighbor boy cut the ribbon opening that freeway. Then I lived within a few blocks in Overland Park Kansas and Lee's Summit Missouri. What I remember about Leawood when I lived there was that they passed a law outlawing jogging off the sidewalk. Except they didn't have sidewalks. So essentially, they outlawed exercise. That wasn't as bad as Eudora Kansas, which outlawed bicycling over the city line, trying to keep the progressives in Lawrence away. That's all I've got to say about my experiences in Kansas. I love the state, never figured the people out. Dad's ranch was on Highway 50 in Shingle Springs California, in the family from 1890, before Highway 50 had even been dreamed up.
Some crazy laws. When I lived in DC, the city passed a law to allow 'right on red after stop' except when posted that you couldn't. So of course the city had a million 'no turn on red' signs made & installed. Man oh man
I never want these videos to end because I'm so enjoying them. Thank you for the hard work it takes so we can enjoy the journey with you, I so appreciate it. Stay safe and GOD bless
At one time Leawood had laws that no Jews or blacks could live there, Then along came the great golfer Tom Waston, who is Jewish, He moved there and the laws change.
US Highways are so fine! When I began trucking, the Interstates weren't complete & the old roads is where we drove. US 60 through south Missouri is nice as is US 52 from NC to ND. So many roads, not enough time. Thanks for driving!
I lived in Kansas for 20 years. Somehow Wiseguy can find so many towns I’ve never heard of. I live in Tennessee now, but I love those Flint Hills. Great Job Wiseguy.
Old 50 ran along 56 from Gardner and continued on through Baldwin City (not running through Wellsville) and connected to US-59 South. It then traveled through Ottawa. At 17th and main in Ottawa the road used to go up and over Princeton Circle Drive (Old 59) and continued over presant day I-35 and onto where it is now.
I googled a map of pre-interstate Kansas and you nailed it. I-70 is actually old Highway 40. Your US 50 path is accurate. Well done! Due to your videos I now look at traveling in Kansas in a new light. I have been over many of these roads countless times and never even paid any attention.
Going through Ottawa reminds me of Ottawa University and it made me think of this. You know I love college basketball. One basketball season I'd love to take a tour of just going to small colleges and watching college basketball games there. What few times I've been to smaller colleges to watch a game, those have been a lot of fun.
You can get that Delores map at Barnes and Noble. I got Pennsylvania & Ohio maps. It’s excellent map that grids a state and gives way more details than a regular map.
The original US50 west of Edgerton was concurrent with US56 to Baldwin Jct. There it met US59, US50 was concurrent with US59 thru, and to, the S side of Ottawa. US50 split away from US59 just past the Fairgrounds.
The thing about Ottawa is that the e/w Missouri Pacific mainline to Pueblo Co., and the SantaFe n/s mainline to Tulsa Ok., used to have a 90' crossing in the middle of a street intersection, right at the south end of the A.T.S.F. Marais De Cygne river bridge in Ottawa.
This is a very good series. It reminds me of author William Least Heat Moon's "Blue Highways", which is a book of his adventures travelling on the highways marked in blue (which designated small, rural and seldom travelled highways on road maps of the mid 20th century).
Being that I live in the mountains of far north central Washington, 20 miles from Kuhnadastan, I am forever amazed as to how vast and how FLAT the Midwest is. Thanks for the video on a quiet Sunday morning. Time for another cup of coffee.
Aww thank you very much! This trip was remarkable that the beginning is like this and then it gets pretty crazy with the mountains later one. Hope to visit up your way someday too!
Some parts of Kansas are flat. We also have the beautiful rolling Flint Hills in my area. Other places are nothing like our fields and pastures with unusual rock formations. The Rockies and the Tetons are always a treat for us!
This is such a treat! I grew up in Kansas. I never knew what cool small towns we have. Plus the great architect that we have in the downtowns. Such great heritage you’re sharing.
Really scenic ride. I am enjoying your ride through the main street of those little towns and am not missing sightseeing of the bigger towns. That’s work which has been done by others. The small town Americana is the true heartland stuff. Route 50 would be a nice ride on two wheels.
@@TravelwithaWiseguy BTW, enjoy that you used a real map (DeLorme) to sketch out your route. Something about handwriting plans, calculations, etc … are still indispensable.
Many of these videos have appeared to be great motorcycle ride possibilities. The one last week through southern Missouri on down into Arkansas really made me dream of riding those roads.
Loved it! This area is where I live, so I'm familiar with alot of these places! I go on Old 50 anytime I get the chance!❤Love the old roads! Great video, once again!
I have driven by or passed through almost every town from Leawood to Peabody. Clements is a ghost town you covered about 1/4 mile south of modern US 50 past Emporia in another video. Once I drove from Dodge City to KC following this route plus some or most of your day 2.
And I wish to start my commenting right at the map. I still enjoy paper maps and atlases but almost nobody uses them anymore. When I was younger, I'd pull out the road atlas, pull up a random state and just imagine going to those places on the map. I'm glad you still use them. I wonder how many kids even know how to read a real map nowadays.
@@TravelwithaWiseguy Just so you know, I wasn't necessarily referring to you, I was including myself in that "poor man's vacation easily entertained" note
With the U.S. hiway system, it still took about 3 mos. to get a military convoy across the country. When Ike first saw the Autobahn, he said,"We need that". That's how the Interstates happened.
Hope you stopped in the little town of Bennington. My great grandfather was Mayor and pretty much owned the town. Owned the large implement company. Cute little place there called the Linger Longer!
So many small towns have a mural in town with historical or patriotic flavor. It is fun to view them as I enjoy seeing the towns as I roll through. So much to see, and so little time to do it.
Glad I found your channel. Side roads with small towns are my favorite way to travel. I do the same in rural California/Oregon/Washington. Never got to travel 50 except in Nevada. Nice to see it from East to West.
This is looking like a very good road trip by this first episode. I love those looks at the architecture in our small and rural towns. And I was surprised and happy to see many of rhise towns have continued to hold or grow their populations right through to the present. Givea me hope that our rural type of life may live on. From the enjoyment of this first episode, I am surely waiting for the rest of this trip.
It's definitely going to be different the further west the trip goes. Hopefully that will keep everyone engaged and interested in what is next. It certainly did for me!
Just got back from my first trip to Kansas. I stayed in Emporia, then Liberal, Oakley, and finally Atchison. Set Google Maps to No Higheays and added Dodge to my route to Liberal. I did not do the Flint Hills region justice. I stayed in Oakely for three nights and got a better feel for that corner of the state. I just loved driving the state. Saw zero large cities. ZERO. I miss those Delorme maps. The Annie Oakley motel was very clean. The rooms were too modern for my taste and it needs some neon, but that stay was nourishing. Think i understand Rock, Chalk, Jayhawk better now.
@@TravelwithaWiseguy just bought a Delorme atlas of Arizona because of you! 😁 Consider getting sponsors link commission. If you have one already, I apologize.
It's a curious thing how many of those towns were named after a place folks emigrated from back east. And of course rail road men's names were used to curry favor with those companies. There are a string of towns in eastern Colorado that a rail road executive allowed his daughter to name. Alphabetically of course. Can't wait for Western Kansas and Eastern Colorado. Spent a lot of time on 50 in the vicinity of both. Been waiting for this one John. Good on ya for getting it done.
Thank you very much! I always enjoy learning about how the towns got their names as well - some are predictable and some are pretty funny 😄 A lot more small towns coming in western Kansas and then eastern Colorado was very interesting!
As a native Kansan I have always felt Kansas was divided into two sections. Eastern Kansas consisting of the Kansas City region and Lawrence. The rest of it is Western Kansas.
Should go to antelope ks it had first hotel and epic Chisholm trail history. Still has some old stores If you do make it look for anyone named Love, thier family owned the hotel brothel
Well, you went through several towns I've lived in or been to. First off I lived in Lenexa as a baby, then a kindergartner. You bypassed it. I graduated from Gardner high school in 1968. Then I lived in Prairie Village but shopped in Leawood off and on, where you didn't stay in, it's a rich person city, then and now. An aunt and uncle lived in Wellsville many years ago and my family and I visited them. So you passed up many nice cities. Yes I've been to Wichita several times as another aunt and uncle lived there years ago. And I have a second cousin who lives there now but I don't know her very well. I think her Mother is living there now but the address she gave me didn't exist which I found out when a letter I wrote her was returned to me. I'm hoping to get a Christmas card/letter from her with the right address. She's in her 80s. Happy trails to you and God bless.
I would love to eventually but not sure when. I already have my Christmas and next summer planned for road trips (not US 50). But someday I’d like to complete it.
@@TravelwithaWiseguy Thanks for that. Can't believe I missed that one. I'm one of those odd ducks that really enjoy Kansas and especially the subtle grandeur of the flint hills. Just across the border in Mo. although most my travels are west.
Along the other portion of highway 50, in Missouri, of the western side of Union, there is an Old Highway 50 W, and Old Highway 50 E. When driving eastbound on highway 50, there'll be a left turn to get onto Old Highway 50 W. Caution, there is no left turn lane. In the eastern portion of Beaufort, western portion of Union, is an area that was once known as Jeffriesburg. I don't know where its post office used to be, or if the building its post office once was is still standing. Today the area between Union and Beaufort is mostly rural homes/farms.
@@TiredMomma Looking at a Historic Map Works plat of 1919, there was only a general store on the NE corner of today's US 50 and Jeffriesburg Road, plus there was the Rock Island depot. I guess the PO may have been in the store, but nothing but a house and an old flea market warehouse remain now
You should also do a trip on US 20. It too, is a coast to coast highway and is about the same length as US 50. If you choose to do that, we would meet you somewhere in Idaho as you came through. Love the US 50 footage so far. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Route_20
From Agricola to Plymouth, about 40 miles or so, with the exception of, the Neosho crossing, and a creek west of Emporia, old 50 was a perfect e/w tangent.
I appreciate the critique - I really do! I don’t disagree but for me there’s this fine line of take too long in these towns and then the video becomes very long. I’m working on part 2 and have that problem right now. So basically I try to give a glimpse for 10-20 seconds. I took a lot of notes though and many of these towns will be subjects of future (and longer) videos.
I would love for John to be able to spend more time to check this or that out more but I realize he is on a time schedule to get everywhere before he goes back to work. But he discovers so many great new places to visit again and make a video about, so we get to look forward to more great videos 😊 Win-win! Edit: I'd love the videos a little longer as well but I realize the work it takes to get the video out. You just have footage in the can to reference to for another video. 👍
Thank you! And for this trip the next video I put out on Thursday will go deeper exploring 3 of the towns that I went through quickly on this first US 50 video. I’m seeing how this kind of publishing goes for this trip instead of just rolling out all the road trip videos together.
Hey John! My girlfriend(now wife)attended ESU in the late 90s and I would travel most wknds from Wichita to Emporia via 50 and from Wichita I would go out of my way to hop on the scenic byway east of El Dorado to visit her because I was so fascinated by the flint hills. Great video as always man!
Here's my US 50 playlist! czcams.com/play/PL4jqwLUrhjNQw1ob-VqcbJ9BTlM1BAV6Q.html
I’m not sure everyone understands the work that goes into, not just the recording and narration, but also the production of a video like this. Astounding work.
I appreciate that 😊 I enjoy the process!
I agree. Videos are a lot of work.
This is why you're my favorite travel channel. I love small, forgotten and imo, more interesting towns
Very nice of you to say 😊 thanks so much!
Excited to begin your Hwy 50 Travelcade! Agree with you about the Flint Hills! Beautiful vistas! And the primitive rock structures such as found in Florence and Peabody are easily by-passed, but so worth a stop to see for those of us who appreciate old stone buildings. Great work, and thank you!
Thank you! I would’ve liked to have shown more of the Flint Hills in this video but I’ve done some previously and I didn’t want it to be too long. The Flint Hills are great!
@@TravelwithaWiseguy They are a gem, definitely!
Silkville School at 9:20 fantastic! Thank You.
And the story of the town is great too! I did video a long time ago about Silkville: czcams.com/video/PfThSLZOtqg/video.html
I have a lot of memories of that section of US 50. I lived in Hutchinson and my Grandparents live in Miami County which is on the Kansas Missouri border.. Once a month, our family would pile in the 1940 Chevy and take Hwy 50 to vist all of our relatives. We would get off of the highway at approximately Franklin. The road then was a gravel road. One vivid memory was in the Florence where the railroad paralleled the highway. The old stearm engines would be bellowing out black smoke. In good weather the smoke would go up and in bad weather the smoke would come out of the smokestack and then roll down to the ground. I especially enjoyed your looks at the small towns. Towns such as Elmdale and Stafforville were a few miles from the highway. We never got off the highway to explore those towns. i look forward to the rest of your US 50 trip.
Tge road from Franklin east was gravel. Hwy 50 was concrete.
Thank you for sharing! Love the small Kansas towns and many more on the way next Sunday. Appreciate the comment!
As a Geologist, I LOVE the Flint Hills. The drive on Highway 177, north of Strong City, through the Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve, is breathtaking in the Spring.
Yes it’s awesome!! Love that area 😊
This is great. I was born right on Highway 50 back when it reached Oakland, grew up within walking distance. When it was replaced with interstate 580, me and a neighbor boy cut the ribbon opening that freeway.
Then I lived within a few blocks in Overland Park Kansas and Lee's Summit Missouri.
What I remember about Leawood when I lived there was that they passed a law outlawing jogging off the sidewalk. Except they didn't have sidewalks. So essentially, they outlawed exercise.
That wasn't as bad as Eudora Kansas, which outlawed bicycling over the city line, trying to keep the progressives in Lawrence away. That's all I've got to say about my experiences in Kansas. I love the state, never figured the people out.
Dad's ranch was on Highway 50 in Shingle Springs California, in the family from 1890, before Highway 50 had even been dreamed up.
Some crazy laws. When I lived in DC, the city passed a law to allow 'right on red after stop' except when posted that you couldn't. So of course the city had a million 'no turn on red' signs made & installed. Man oh man
A lot of history for you on US 50! Thanks for sharing this interesting tidbits 😊
I never want these videos to end because I'm so enjoying them. Thank you for the hard work it takes so we can enjoy the journey with you, I so appreciate it. Stay safe and GOD bless
Thank you! Fortunately a lot more of them are coming for the next 8 Sundays haha.
At one time Leawood had laws that no Jews or blacks could live there, Then along came the great golfer Tom Waston, who is Jewish, He moved there and the laws change.
Enjoying watching your videos. I am sitting here on a rainy Sunday morning, drinking coffee and watching videos. 😊
Aww I love that 😊
US Highways are so fine! When I began trucking, the Interstates weren't complete & the old roads is where we drove. US 60 through south Missouri is nice as is US 52 from NC to ND. So many roads, not enough time. Thanks for driving!
So many great trips I’d love to do on these roads! Thank you!!
I love that you highlight towns that time has forgotten.
One more day in the sun 😊
I lived in Kansas for 20 years. Somehow Wiseguy can find so many towns I’ve never heard of. I live in Tennessee now, but I love those Flint Hills. Great Job Wiseguy.
Thank you! The Flint Hills are always a great visit!
This is going to be great! Anticipating the coming videos.
It should get more interesting as I head west 😊
Old 50 ran along 56 from Gardner and continued on through Baldwin City (not running through Wellsville) and connected to US-59 South. It then traveled through Ottawa. At 17th and main in Ottawa the road used to go up and over Princeton Circle Drive (Old 59) and continued over presant day I-35 and onto where it is now.
The railroad office in Newton is one of the main stops for Amtrack. Usually coming though this part of Kansas in the middle of the night.
Love the old buildings in the towns
I googled a map of pre-interstate Kansas and you nailed it. I-70 is actually old Highway 40. Your US 50 path is accurate. Well done! Due to your videos I now look at traveling in Kansas in a new light. I have been over many of these roads countless times and never even paid any attention.
Very cool! Fun to dive into the history of these roads and how important they were!
Going through Ottawa reminds me of Ottawa University and it made me think of this. You know I love college basketball. One basketball season I'd love to take a tour of just going to small colleges and watching college basketball games there. What few times I've been to smaller colleges to watch a game, those have been a lot of fun.
You can get that Delores map at Barnes and Noble. I got Pennsylvania & Ohio maps. It’s excellent map that grids a state and gives way more details than a regular map.
The original US50 west of Edgerton was concurrent with US56 to Baldwin Jct. There it met US59, US50 was concurrent with US59 thru, and to, the S side of Ottawa. US50 split away from US59 just past the Fairgrounds.
The thing about Ottawa is that the e/w Missouri Pacific mainline to Pueblo Co., and the SantaFe n/s mainline to Tulsa Ok., used to have a 90' crossing in the middle of a street intersection, right at the south end of the A.T.S.F. Marais De Cygne river bridge in Ottawa.
This is a very good series. It reminds me of author William Least Heat Moon's "Blue Highways", which is a book of his adventures travelling on the highways marked in blue (which designated small, rural and seldom travelled highways on road maps of the mid 20th century).
Being that I live in the mountains of far north central Washington, 20 miles from Kuhnadastan, I am forever amazed as to how vast and how FLAT the Midwest is.
Thanks for the video on a quiet Sunday morning. Time for another cup of coffee.
Aww thank you very much! This trip was remarkable that the beginning is like this and then it gets pretty crazy with the mountains later one. Hope to visit up your way someday too!
You're welcome. Hwy 20, the northern most east west route has great history and lots of small towns/ghost towns.@@TravelwithaWiseguy
Yes! I’ve looked at that one and hope to do it someday!
Some parts of Kansas are flat. We also have the beautiful rolling Flint Hills in my area. Other places are nothing like our fields and pastures with unusual rock formations. The Rockies and the Tetons are always a treat for us!
Love the murals in these towns
This is such a treat! I grew up in Kansas. I never knew what cool small towns we have. Plus the great architect that we have in the downtowns. Such great heritage you’re sharing.
Kansas is full of great small towns! I always love exploring and visiting them 😊
Really scenic ride. I am enjoying your ride through the main street of those little towns and am not missing sightseeing of the bigger towns. That’s work which has been done by others. The small town Americana is the true heartland stuff. Route 50 would be a nice ride on two wheels.
Yeah the small towns are where it’s at for me! I’m not a motorcycle guy but I saw a lot of them on this trip.
@@TravelwithaWiseguy BTW, enjoy that you used a real map (DeLorme) to sketch out your route. Something about handwriting plans, calculations, etc … are still indispensable.
It’s one of the most enjoyable parts of the process for me!
Many of these videos have appeared to be great motorcycle ride possibilities. The one last week through southern Missouri on down into Arkansas really made me dream of riding those roads.
I always get amazed at your travel buddy! This is going to be great! Can't wait to see all of these.
Thanks so much! It was a fun trip!
Loved it! This area is where I live, so I'm familiar with alot of these places! I go on Old 50 anytime I get the chance!❤Love the old roads! Great video, once again!
Thank you! This was a fun trip - hopefully it connects with others as well :)
Lots of nice little towns. Very quaint. Great video, look forward to more!
Thank you very much!!
I have driven by or passed through almost every town from Leawood to Peabody. Clements is a ghost town you covered about 1/4 mile south of modern US 50 past Emporia in another video. Once I drove from Dodge City to KC following this route plus some or most of your day 2.
Fun area to explore!
And I wish to start my commenting right at the map. I still enjoy paper maps and atlases but almost nobody uses them anymore. When I was younger, I'd pull out the road atlas, pull up a random state and just imagine going to those places on the map. I'm glad you still use them. I wonder how many kids even know how to read a real map nowadays.
Same for me when we would take family vacations! Kept me entertained for hours 😂😂
@@TravelwithaWiseguy Easily entertained, I guess. Lol, the poor man's vacation. Can't go there to pull out a map and imagine going
Honestly that’s right! I dreamed of visiting those places and now I’m doing my best to accomplish it.
@@TravelwithaWiseguy Just so you know, I wasn't necessarily referring to you, I was including myself in that "poor man's vacation easily entertained" note
Great video! Those are our Appaloosas at 11:14. Thanks for the history often overlooked as travelers whiz by on I-35.
That’s awesome! Beautiful horses and a beautiful area to drive through!
Very cool to see this, I grew up in a couple small towns not far from old highway 50 in Osage and Coffey county.
Looking forward to the future shows❤
Yay!!!
I’m so excited to take this trip with you!!
Let’s do this!!!
"Leloup French for the wolf" Look at you, now teaching us French
😂😂 🇫🇷
Looks like the start of an amazing trip! I can’t wait to see the upcoming videos.
It was a lot of fun! Hopefully that fun will come through in the upcoming videos 😊
With the U.S. hiway system, it still took about 3 mos. to get a military convoy across the country. When Ike first saw the Autobahn, he said,"We need that". That's how the Interstates happened.
Hope you stopped in the little town of Bennington. My great grandfather was Mayor and pretty much owned the town. Owned the large implement company. Cute little place there called the Linger Longer!
It’s a little too far north of US 50 for this trip but I’d love to visit it someday!
Neat video! I think the flag and eagle painted on a building in (I think Florence) was very beautiful. TFS
For sure! I’m hoping this town will be a future “small town, USA” subject.
So many small towns have a mural in town with historical or patriotic flavor. It is fun to view them as I enjoy seeing the towns as I roll through. So much to see, and so little time to do it.
Glad I found your channel. Side roads with small towns are my favorite way to travel. I do the same in rural California/Oregon/Washington. Never got to travel 50 except in Nevada. Nice to see it from East to West.
Welcome aboard! I’ll have some Nevada and California videos from this trip coming soon! Thanks for the support!
This is looking like a very good road trip by this first episode. I love those looks at the architecture in our small and rural towns. And I was surprised and happy to see many of rhise towns have continued to hold or grow their populations right through to the present. Givea me hope that our rural type of life may live on. From the enjoyment of this first episode, I am surely waiting for the rest of this trip.
It's definitely going to be different the further west the trip goes. Hopefully that will keep everyone engaged and interested in what is next. It certainly did for me!
Just got back from my first trip to Kansas.
I stayed in Emporia, then Liberal, Oakley, and finally Atchison.
Set Google Maps to No Higheays and added Dodge to my route to Liberal.
I did not do the Flint Hills region justice.
I stayed in Oakely for three nights and got a better feel for that corner of the state.
I just loved driving the state.
Saw zero large cities. ZERO.
I miss those Delorme maps.
The Annie Oakley motel was very clean. The rooms were too modern for my taste and it needs some neon, but that stay was nourishing.
Think i understand Rock, Chalk, Jayhawk better now.
Sounds like an awesome trip!!
@@TravelwithaWiseguy just bought a Delorme atlas of Arizona because of you! 😁
Consider getting sponsors link commission. If you have one already, I apologize.
Nice! I don’t have any kind of sponsor connections yet. Mostly doing this for fun at the moment.
Enjoying this! Hope that you can do the same on R.70 in the future, the route we drove 20 years ago, to our current location.
I’d love to do them all someday if possible!
There is a great bridge to see in Clements, Kansas, called the Stone Arch Bridge, abandoned, that reminds one of ancient Roman bridges.
Yes! Awesome place. I visited it in this video: czcams.com/video/89wwg5vBCfI/video.htmlsi=lZE2MJSScAuw8c12
Thanks for the ride. In that area we saw several sand rock bridges that were amazing .
Yes! Out on the country backroads are lots of old bridges - some of my favorite things!
Looking forward to Day Two.
I lived in the KC area from 1979 to 1996. I can't believe how the population has increased! Thanks for the trip.
It's a curious thing how many of those towns were named after a place folks emigrated from back east. And of course rail road men's names were used to curry favor with those companies. There are a string of towns in eastern Colorado that a rail road executive allowed his daughter to name. Alphabetically of course. Can't wait for Western Kansas and Eastern Colorado. Spent a lot of time on 50 in the vicinity of both. Been waiting for this one John. Good on ya for getting it done.
Thank you very much! I always enjoy learning about how the towns got their names as well - some are predictable and some are pretty funny 😄 A lot more small towns coming in western Kansas and then eastern Colorado was very interesting!
Always interesting videos. Thank you.
Thank you!!
love it
Hi john thanks for the great tour some nice towns there . Cheers mate🇦🇺
Thanks! Lots more to come next week 😊
Glad I found this channel! Great stuff!
Awesome, thank you!
This is a very good show to use of americana at it's best. Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Let it roll......Down the highway 🛣 😊
As a native Kansan I have always felt Kansas was divided into two sections. Eastern Kansas consisting of the Kansas City region and Lawrence. The rest of it is Western Kansas.
Thank you for profiling Ottawa….we will be there in October for a wedding!
Nice! I've been there a few times and have enjoyed it!
Really nice video. Lots of info in this video. Be good, be safe !!
Thanks, will do!
Great job on your videos. Lots of research.
Thank you! Much appreciated!
Should go to antelope ks it had first hotel and epic Chisholm trail history.
Still has some old stores
If you do make it look for anyone named Love, thier family owned the hotel brothel
Well, you went through several towns I've lived in or been to. First off I lived in Lenexa as a baby, then a kindergartner. You bypassed it. I graduated from Gardner high school in 1968. Then I lived in Prairie Village but shopped in Leawood off and on, where you didn't stay in, it's a rich person city, then and now. An aunt and uncle lived in Wellsville many years ago and my family and I visited them. So you passed up many nice cities. Yes I've been to Wichita several times as another aunt and uncle lived there years ago. And I have a second cousin who lives there now but I don't know her very well. I think her Mother is living there now but the address she gave me didn't exist which I found out when a letter I wrote her was returned to me. I'm hoping to get a Christmas card/letter from her with the right address. She's in her 80s. Happy trails to you and God bless.
I loved the part of 50 in Colorado I did drive into Cannon City I think that was the name of it.
Really beautiful area! Cañon City.
Thanks!🚗
No problem 👍
My dad and me went to kc on the way there we saw you.
Oh yeah? You should’ve said hey!
Another great video!
Do you have plans on running the other half of US 50?
I would love to eventually but not sure when. I already have my Christmas and next summer planned for road trips (not US 50). But someday I’d like to complete it.
You're my favorite travel video too.
Thank you 😊
Should have got the Clements stone arch bridge over the cottonwood river. Just a little outside town. Well worth the stop.
Yes! I’ve had it in multiple other videos - definitely worth stopping to see. Same with the Tallgrass Prairie Preserve just a bit north of US 50.
@@TravelwithaWiseguy I guess those are videos I've missed, darn.
Here ya go 😊 czcams.com/video/89wwg5vBCfI/video.html
@@TravelwithaWiseguy Thanks for that. Can't believe I missed that one. I'm one of those odd ducks that really enjoy Kansas and especially the subtle grandeur of the flint hills. Just across the border in Mo. although most my travels are west.
Great video Brother! Can you do more 10 smallest town videos?
Thank you! And yes I plan to but I can’t do them very often. I’m hoping to film one in October and December.
@@TravelwithaWiseguy Ok! Thanks brother! Love you! And love your videos❤️♥️💜💙💛🧡🤍💕
The U.S.50 that's there now, is about the 3rd incarnation of the original, especially around Emporia.
😲 I never realized hwy 50 went past St. Louis going east. I thought it ended there.
Neat to see how far west it goes.
Along the other portion of highway 50, in Missouri, of the western side of Union, there is an Old Highway 50 W, and Old Highway 50 E.
When driving eastbound on highway 50, there'll be a left turn to get onto Old Highway 50 W. Caution, there is no left turn lane.
In the eastern portion of Beaufort, western portion of Union, is an area that was once known as Jeffriesburg.
I don't know where its post office used to be, or if the building its post office once was is still standing.
Today the area between Union and Beaufort is mostly rural homes/farms.
Very interesting! I hope to explore the eastern half of this trip someday as well!
@@TiredMomma Looking at a Historic Map Works plat of 1919, there was only a general store on the NE corner of today's US 50 and Jeffriesburg Road, plus there was the Rock Island depot. I guess the PO may have been in the store, but nothing but a house and an old flea market warehouse remain now
Yeah, i know that sign. Headin back to Wichita from a Chiefs game, at the Arrowhead.
You should also do a trip on US 20. It too, is a coast to coast highway and is about the same length as US 50. If you choose to do that, we would meet you somewhere in Idaho as you came through. Love the US 50 footage so far.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Route_20
Would love to someday!
I'm from Nebraska but 45 minutes from Kansas
Some of the stretch of old hwy 50 looked kinda sketchy! 😅
Haha just wait til I get to Utah 😂😂
Hunter ks still has the old sheriff and jail house
U ought to check out iola ks 54 highway goes Thur iola ks
Would love to - and it goes through where I live in Wichita 😊
I find some of the people and things they named the towns after kind of strange 🤔
Haha yeah - a lot of railroad stuff to try to convince them to build through there area.
Are you going to do a road trip on Oklahoma i 35 into Illinois similar history to route 66 think about it.
Would love to but not sure if/when I could do that one.
Agricola, where agriculture and Coca-Cola come together
And more Agricola coming your way Thursday 😂😂
Really? You're in Wichita? So am I. All my 63 yrs.
Yep 😊
From Agricola to Plymouth, about 40 miles or so, with the exception of, the Neosho crossing, and a creek west of Emporia, old 50 was a perfect e/w tangent.
I watch and enjoy all your videos, not to be too critical but this one seems to be a little too rushed to show a lot of towns in one video.
I appreciate the critique - I really do! I don’t disagree but for me there’s this fine line of take too long in these towns and then the video becomes very long. I’m working on part 2 and have that problem right now. So basically I try to give a glimpse for 10-20 seconds. I took a lot of notes though and many of these towns will be subjects of future (and longer) videos.
I would love for John to be able to spend more time to check this or that out more but I realize he is on a time schedule to get everywhere before he goes back to work. But he discovers so many great new places to visit again and make a video about, so we get to look forward to more great videos 😊 Win-win! Edit: I'd love the videos a little longer as well but I realize the work it takes to get the video out. You just have footage in the can to reference to for another video. 👍
Thank you! And for this trip the next video I put out on Thursday will go deeper exploring 3 of the towns that I went through quickly on this first US 50 video. I’m seeing how this kind of publishing goes for this trip instead of just rolling out all the road trip videos together.
Hey John! My girlfriend(now wife)attended ESU in the late 90s and I would travel most wknds from Wichita to Emporia via 50 and from Wichita I would go out of my way to hop on the scenic byway east of El Dorado to visit her because I was so fascinated by the flint hills. Great video as always man!