Happy Birthday, Kansas, on your 162nd year! Proud to say that you are the only state I’ve ever lived in and wouldn’t change that for anything. Kansas is smack dab in the middle of the United States. Some say it’s boring driving through Kansas on the interstate roadways but it really isn’t. Yes, there are acres and acres of rolling plains, but there are also the Monument Rock formations made of limestone rocks, and the grassy rolling hills termed the Flint Hills. There are the many lakes, creeks and rivers over the state. Trees once were not in existence when the early settlers ar...