A great post by Michael Totten on his recent drive across the Great Plains. Here in California we have a stretch of I-5 that heads down (or up, depending on your point of view) the Central Valley that might challenge the midwestern interstates for dullness, but we have nothing to compare to what Totten came across in Kansas - entire rural areas where people are just leaving, to the point where they're giving land away. Totten:
Some of the people who live in ghost towns to-be feel the ominous dread of looming collapse and depopulation. So they will give you free land. That’s right. It’s free land homesteading all over again. All you have to do is build a house on the land. If you like living in the middle of nowhere, if you don’t mind harsh weather and a lack of topography, and you’re looking for the cheapest deal in the country, Kansas just might be your place. Go to Kansasfreeland.com and take a look.
There's something about the pictures in Totten's post that are downright haunting. The ghost bridge that leads to nowhere; the ghost houses that are slowly rotting...sounds like something out of a Stephen King novel.
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