How to Get From There to Here

Roblin Meeks
Human Parts
Published in
3 min readMar 14

Photo by Nathanael Dunn

Lewis, Kansas was 10 minutes straight east; Greensburg (home of the world’s largest hand-dug well) 28 minutes south. Offerle, a few buildings huddling around grain elevators and a spindly water tower, 10 minutes west. Continue west 29 minutes more to Dodge City, and you could eat McNuggets and fries at the McDonald’s with a table inside a mock covered wagon. Head northeast for just under an hour, and you find yourself in Great Bend, a…

Roblin Meeks
Human Parts

Essayist, lapsed professional philosopher, associate dean of ice cream. Author of creative nonfiction about work, love, self and other stuff. Welcome, pals.