... This is the travel update site for NICK SMYKA - aka: Nick123.com
EMAIL: nick123travelroad@gmail.com
- SALINA, KANSAS
- Near the Geographic Center
of the Continental USA
- I travelled through here enroute from the
tip of South Padre Island, Texas
to go live in North Dakota for the summer to go
work in a National Park for the first time!
- As the westernmost town on the Smoky Hill Trail, Salina boomed until the Civil War by establishing itself as a trading post for westbound immigrants, gold prospectors bound for Pikes Peak, and area American Indian tribes. It was named for the salty Saline River.
- Kansas is named after the Kansas River,
in turn named after the Kansa people.
