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    Seneca, Kansas: Not Another Travel Guide
    Seneca, Kansas: Not Another Travel Guide
    Seneca, Kansas: Not Another Travel Guide
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    Seneca, Kansas: Not Another Travel Guide

    By Bob Campbell

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    Seneca, Kansas... seriously. Prepare to spend a week there one day... well, actually it's about 36 hours if you count the trip in from the northern border, down along the upper Kansas margin on Highway 36, which is also provided so you can experience the full flavor agrarian Kansas has to offer.
    Before you scoff and decide absolutely nobody in their right mind would want to live it, let alone read about it or look at all the cool pictures drawing you through a full sunny Sunday, here's a short list of who will benefit from this amazing collection of Great Plains images:
    Cubicle Convicts - you know who you are, chained to a desk, monitored by the warden, just waiting to rattle your tin Starbucks mug against the fake fabric lining your cell. You're pretty sure you remember what it looks like out a window, if only you had one. If you recall, it wasn't much to see, just other steel and glass monoliths and a brown ugly haze. If it matters, the folks out here on the farm pity you and truly wish you a better life. Grab a copy of this book and allow them to share a day with you. Consider it parole... you deserve it.
    World Travelers - that jet setting bunch, Rio to Paris, NY to LA, Miami to... Seneca! Because most likely not a single one of your fancy friends will likely be able to claim this oft missed vacation destination. Because admit it, after awhile, those big cities all tend to blur together. This book is your cure.
    Model Railroad Enthusiasts and Miniature Town Modelers - from popular HO and N scale train folks up to Lionel O-Guage Three-Railers, and especially Lego Train AFOLs will find this little book a treasure trove of information and design suggestions from a truly prototypical Mid-western / Great Plains farm town with brick and cobble stone main street to glorious country churches. Get the look and feel for transition townships all across America serviced by rail and still alive today.
    Intelligent, Creative, and Progressive People of all walks of life: because the smarter you are, the more you know knowledge is power. Fill in those weak areas of your brain about daily life in a small town and treat those highly convoluted lobes to the visual delights of nature, agriculture, and experiences you've only read about, but never seen... until now.
    People who live this life everyday - farmers, townspeople, and those recently removed from the country wanting a chance to awaken the wonder and amazement of your life to better appreciate all the gifts God gave you by putting dirt under your boots and the sun and rain over your head. Experience the book and realize how special your life is out with the land - then order all your pitiful city friends a copy so they can better understand why you do what you do and live where you live, even if many years it seems like the last possible one on your farm - because somehow, you make it work, from sun up to sun down, and still take the requisite holy day to give your thanks for all that is good in your life.
    Everyone who said, "Ha! Vacation spots and beaches - any fool with a camera can take those pictures. There's no way you could do the same thing in the middle of nowhere." Really? How about right past it and 140 miles from the geographic middle of our great nation? Is that far enough from the ocean for you? This is my answer to that challenge.
    Whichever category you are, snag your copy, settle in, and return to that life you're missing or you've forgotten. I hope you enjoy your Sunday in Seneca.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBob Campbell
    Release dateJul 7, 2016
    ISBN9781311386359
    Seneca, Kansas: Not Another Travel Guide
    Author

    Bob Campbell

    The short of it: over-educated, unemployed, and annoying with a camera. Quite possibly a dangerous combination.The long of it:I've been snapping pictures for over a quarter-of-a-century on equipment ranging from a Pentax k1000 to Canon SX700hs - but nothing fancier. In fact, after they retired my Kodachrome 64 film, I hung up the 'real cameras' and settled for "digital pocket snappers." It seems ninety percent of the challenge to taking pictures is to remember your camera (would seem obvious, wouldn't it? But look around at the folks with large, fancy cameras - no wonder they claim the phone-based lens will be the death of real photography). So I do my part and pack it almost everywhere.I was a latecomer to photography, though, so I had time to grow up in many different parts of the country with my formative stage in the South, but junior high and onward in the Pacific Northwest. The last set of initials after my name tacked on by the Washington State University College of Veterinary Medicine - making the 'highest degree attained' line of the survey read Doctor of Veterinary Medicine.I still live in the state of Washington with my lovely wife of over two decades who continues to be an invaluable accomplice. For any hazard I manage to avoid, our son does his best to ensure we'll see an early grave.Having spent a little time teaching, I've grown to miss a captive audience to inflict my photography upon, so thank you Smashwords for providing me a forum for dispersing my imagery pain to be loosed upon the world.

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      Seneca, Kansas - Bob Campbell

      Not Another Travel Guide

      Seneca, Kansas

      Bob Campbell

      Copyright 2016 C. Robert Campbell

      Photography & Images Copyright 2016 Bob Campbell

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

      This ebook is licensed for your very own personal enjoyment only. The series of ones and zeros that comprise this work may not be resold or given away to other humanoids or sentient beings. If you would like to share this ebook with another, please purchase an additional copy for him, her, or it. If you're reading this ebook and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased specifically for your own personal use, then duck-and-cover, because Karma has a way of happening - so don't chance it - just make a little digital trip to your favorite ebook retailer and purchase your very own copy. Thank you for respecting my efforts.

      : Table of Contents :

      Introduction

      Important Notes

      Travel to Seneca on the Yellow Brick Road from the North Border

      Sunday Morning in Seneca

      - Downtown

      - Outskirts and Countryside

      - Back Toward Home base

      St. Mary's Catholic Church (St. Benedict / North Seneca, KS)

      Exploration West on Hwy 36 (Marysville, KS)

      Evening in Seneca

      Conclusion

      Other Works by Bob Campbell

      About the Author & Contact Information

      Introduction

      Yo, Toto! It looks like we're in Kansas!(Details)

      Seneca, Kansas to be exact.(Details)

      Time to get back to our roots (or at least my wife's) and visit the in-laws in northeastern Kansas. (Seneca, KS, June 19, 2016, 18:23 PDT, SX700 1/200s f5.6 ISO320)

      Time to drop back a notch, because you should never get so busy in life you can't take time to stop and smell the weeds. Or something like that. (Marysville, KS, June 19, 2016, 13:25 PDT, SX700 1/1250 f4 ISO100, west side of the Kansas Highway 36 bridge)

      Prepare to join us at the northern border of Kansas as we spend a week there one day. (Truth be told, actually a day-and-a-half.) (Seneca, KS, 05:24 PDT, 1/320 f5.6 ISO125)

      So pack your bags, close the trunk, and settle in for a return to a way of

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