Here’s the latest on Travel with a Wiseguy!
We have climbed to over 5,400 subscribers and 750,000 total video views in the history of the channel. I never would’ve imagined this would grow to those numbers and I want to thank everyone for their continued support!
small town, USA
Two weeks ago, I started posting a new series of videos about small towns that aren’t ghost towns, and the response has been very good! I’ve only published two videos so far (Madison, KS, and Howard, KS) and they have received over 16,000 views already. I even got an email from the city clerk of Madison that sent her appreciation from the people of the town! People are generally proud of their small town they grew up in, and hopefully these videos continue to resonate with those communities.
You never know how a new video will go. I know that I have a pretty solid base of ghost town “fans” as well as an even larger base of viewers that watch anything I put out about Kansas. These new videos kind of combine that. I will be putting out “small town, USA” videos from other states in the coming weeks, so it’ll be interesting to see how that goes (Here’s looking at you Butte, Nebraska).
Recent travels and mic problems
We just had our “Fall Break” at Wichita State, so I took a few days and traveled up to Nebraska. The goal of the trip was to visit the 10 smallest towns in the state (which I accomplished). I also visited a bunch of ghost towns and did some of the aforementioned small town, USA videos. The highlight of the trip was when I got to meet and interview Elsie Eiler, who is the only resident of Monowi, Nebraska. I rarely ask someone to do an interview and I was fortunate that she sat down with me and talked for 10-15 minutes. The bad part is for some reason the mic on my phone didn’t like something and much of the interview has a scratchy sound. I couldn’t believe it – this is basically the only interview I’ve ever done, and the mic screwed up (face palm). But I am hoping to salvage it enough to be part of the video, because she was great to chat with! I also bought a cool Monowi t-shirt from her. 😊
1870's Wichita |
Travel plans and future videos
While I was in Nebraska, I was able to get around to enough places to have footage for 10 future videos (see below). I have been thinking about a couple of short trips before the end of the year. I might take a day trip up to Cottonwood Falls, KS, and some interesting areas near there. Also, I might go down to Oklahoma for a day or two before the weather gets chilly. As I mentioned last month, I have a lot of ideas for late December/early January travel. Those are still up in the air. I might go to Denver for the US Track Coaches Convention in mid-December. I plan to go to Ohio for Christmas. I’d like to squeeze in a few days in Texas before returning to Wichita for track practice in early January.
If you are interested in keeping up with where I’m at, the best place to follow me is Instagram (Travel with a Wiseguy). Often, I’ll put some photos in the story of where I’m currently exploring.
Here is the tentative release schedule for the next few weeks (sometimes I change it on a whim):
Sun, Oct 23 (today) – Wichita’s Wild West Past/Wyatt Earp
Thu, Oct 27 – Greenwood
County, KS, ghost towns Part 1 (14 towns and 1 bridge!)
Sun, Oct 30 – small town, USA –
Butte, NE
Thu, Nov 3 – Greenwood County,
KS, ghost towns Part 2 (13 more towns and 5 more bridges!)
Sun, Nov 6 – small town, USA –
Hamburg, IA
Thu, Nov 10 – Nebraska Ghost
Towns #2 – Amboy, Angus, Spring Ranch
Sun, Nov 13 – Top-10 Smallest
Towns Nebraska
Thu, Nov 17 – Kansas Ghost
Towns #15 – Nicodemus
Sun, Nov 20 – small town, USA –
Scribner, NE
Thu, Nov 24 – Wyoming Ghost
Towns #2 – Miner’s Delight, Atlantic City, South Pass City
Sun, Nov 27 – small town, USA –
Beaver City, NE
Thu, Dec 1 – Idaho Ghost Towns
#2 – Chesterfield, Silver City
That is the current plan through the end of November. It could easily change if I go for a short trip to one of the above mentioned places. I like to try and mix it up and not have to many videos from the same state all in a row.
I also have 3 Nebraska ghost town videos that I filmed and will release in December or later:
Nebraska Ghost Towns #3 – Kronborg,
Nysted, Dannevirke
Nebraska Ghost Towns #4 –
Sparks, Meadville, Brocksburg
Nebraska Ghost Towns #5 –
Venus, Wee Town, Ames
That seems like enough for now. Thanks again to everyone for the support! Happy Travels!
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