Roaring across America we stopped at one of our all-time favorite places, Rock City, a very unique site just outside of Minneapolis, Kansas, population ~2,042.
Kansas is basically flat open plains with occasional rolling hills, and most certainly no rocks. So finding rocks, particularly strange unusual rocks, in Kansas is pretty awesome. And it isn't easy.
The rocks are huge, largely spherical, concretions, over 200 of them in a tiny spce about the size of two football fields. There appears to be nowhere else in the world where there are so many concretions of such giant size, and it is in a tiny spot between farms in rockless Kansas!
We had first found this place back in the 1970's/80's, then lost it for many years, then, with the advent of the internet, had searched and searched, not finding it for many years. After finally finding it again we made our first return trip in 2007 and our third visit this week.
We now know that it is outside Minneapolis, Kansas (NOT Minnesota!) and is at latitude 39.09084 North, longitude -97.73526 (West).
After a great visit to Rock City we headed back down the road and we found the place so beloved by our own Frédérique, Freddy's Frozen Custard! After the big buildup Frédérique has given it, we just had to try Freddy's.
Oddly enough, after a visit to the Rock City concretions, it was really interesting to find out that Freddy's calls their sundaes "concretes"!
As I chatted a bit with the staff, I'm ashamed to say I downed an incredible mini-concrete "Signature Turtle, an aggregation of frozen custard (it normally includes vanila frozen custard but I selected chocolate), hot fudge, hot caramel, toasted pecans, whipped cream, and a cherry!
Then it was back on the road!
Hugs,
Persephone.