We backtracked to Ft. Larned. It is extremely well restored and presented; very few written descriptions, but every building is just as it would have been in the Post Civil War era. Back to Hays for a fine salad bar at Dillon's grocery store. On to Stockton and Lake Webster State Park. We were able to pitch our tent on a cement slab with a roof over it that looked like a mushroom. This protected us from the light rain which fell in the night, but not from the dew/mist which came in the morning. We journeyed over to the Nicodemus National Historical Site, which is a few miles west. It is a very humble site which acknowledges that this town was settled by freed slaves who wanted to escape the racism of the post- reconstruction era. It flourished until the railroad went south of the town, and many people moved to the neighboring towns. There are still 250 descendants of the original settlers in the area, a handful in Nicodemus.
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