Kansas State University - then back north again, to Waconia

In In Manhattan, Kansas we met Carrie, the family's architect student, on of the 27 thousand in this town of some 27 thousand inhabitants, students not counted. She showed us the college, that to me seemed very modern and friendly. The College of Architecture, Planning and Design even had a Norwegian project, Vikevåg, realizing the planning process for a community renewal, as I could understand. At the College of Agricuture we could taste their own production of excellent ice cream.

We had a nice trip back again under a blue sky and bright sunshine. First we passed through Kansas City, that is situated partly in Kansas, but mainly in Missouri. As we drove through that city I remarqued the typical architecture, especially the many beautiful small houses along the road.

As we left Kansas City and went across the countryside, we could see eagles and hawks, and we remarqued that the landscape was changing from the poorer soil of Kansas and Missouri, where snow no longer was lying on the ground, to the richer soils of Iowa and Minnesota. Here the winter still had it's cold hands on the white farmlands.

Again I had to think of my great grandfather, Oddmund Kambestad and his wife, my great grandmother, Ragna Kambestad. While we were driving north through Iowa again I looked at the map and I thought that there must be someone in the family who knows something about where in Iowa that farm was, someone who knows in what county og township they had their farm.