Mt Sunflower, Kansas |
 It is also possible to go on a guided tour of the dome, which climbs almost 300 steps – most of them in the gap between the interior and the exterior domes of the capitol – to reach the external balcony around the cupola beneath Ad Astra’s statue. I was the only person on the 10:15 am guided tour of the dome on Tuesday, 27 September 2016 (for understandable reasons people with a fear of heights or heart disease are advised not to go up it), and I was duly rewarded with … |