Travel Blogs from Kansas City, United States
Off to Kansas
... my great aunt Florence and I were able to make a day out of it and the refurbished Union Station was quite nice. Kansas City appears to be undergoing quite a building boom although they are feeling the effects of a slowing housing market. Many ...
Off to Missouri, the "show-me" state & Kansas City
... in Kansas City at about 2pm we met with Karen at her home and went to lunch at PF Chang's Chinese Bistro in Westport Plaza. Downtown Kansas City has the most water fountains in the US and is second only to Rome in the world. Karen took on a drive thru the ...
Riding Into Wild West’s Boiling Pot
... would not survive. A stop at Mikeys Auto repair where we met a big sweaty guy who maintained the 'overly welcoming' nature of Kansas people and refreshed us for the next leg. The last crawl into Dodge City was longer than we had anticipated and the ...
Thursday 29 May
... small town called Holly so we took a few pictures of Holly next to the signs which was fun. We then entered Kansas and started feeling rather lintrepid and a little apprehensive because of the weather. We had been hearing stories of tornado warnings ...
No Trouble In Cowboy Capital Of The World
... bike ride to Walmart to buy a sunhat and then sweat our way around a pretty cheesy reconstruction of Front Street, Dodge City. Both experiences convinced us that we were better off in a restaurant enjoying a long lazy Sunday lunch. Unfortunately ...
Quality time before I leave
So the family and I after getting some more rest from our "resting"/vacation, decided that it would be good to put up our Christmas tree and spend some more quality time together. It wasn't until we were done that we all realized this was the first ...
Kansas City BBQ: The 2nd Best Reason to Visit KC
What an oasis to arrive at Megan and Justin's house after staying in America's Best Value Inn the night before. Not only does their house not smell like cigarette smoke, but you're able to take your shoes off and not get scared of what might be on ...
all checked in and ready to board
we made it past security just waiting to board the plane. miss the kifs already, wish i could take the whole family. little nervous but more excited then anything. thanks for following ...
Well I'm off to the Emerald City
As all good journeys begin, we have to start in Kansas.. we'll at least pretty close to Kansas any ...
This week's church home
We were excited to see that we would be in the Kansas City area this Sunday. A great professor and friend from Cedarville, Dr. Cook, pastors Christian Fellowship downtown, and we've been wanting to visit. Unfortunately, Dr. Cook wasn't there this ...
Kansas City
... rocking to get the plane out on the tarmac, and then the whole de-icing process we finally left Milwaukee at 1:00 PM or so arriving in Kansas City at 3:00 PM or so. There was a minor problem with the lavatory but other than that, we're off on a 3 and a ...
Chicago, Kansas City, Cairo (and Harry S. Truman)
... out in Chicago for a couple days prior to the event. They booked me a ticket from Cairo to Chicago and then from CHI to Kansas City two days later. I spent the 36 hours I had in Evanston seeing SO MANY people I love and getting sick for lack of sleep. ...
Yea! Home Again.. can't wait to sleep!
As usual, Midwest Airlines treated me well and I've returned to KC for a short sleep, wash clothes, repack and head out tomorrow morning with the family for a week of vacation! Trying to get some quality time in with my favorite people before going on ...
Going to Kansas City, Kansas City here I come
... and Charlie in the car. The new mini laptop worked out really well. We finally got to the LaQuinta in kansas City (a really dumpy one they bought from someone else and remodeled, not like the nice ones they build ...
Epilogue
102 days... 43 cigars... 22 airline flights... 16 hotels... 4 rented scooters... 3 train rides... 2 digital cameras... and 1 pussy show later.. I am home again. ----- The return flight was as quick and painless as 30+ hours ...
Gift Card #25: Hugh
We're in Kansas City, MO in the middle of a snow storm that's pretty much taking over the entire United States. There was not a show scheduled for today, but if there were it would have been canceled as are all the schools. We don't want to be ...
Back Home - Cherish even the little things!
Feeling like a stranger in my own home, I've been gone so long. Worse part about a 2 week vacation from work is I'll barely be overcoming the jet lag when it's time to go back :( But I was blessed to be able to come home at the same time as my ...
Just keep pedaling...
... smell via the internet you better believe I'd give each and every one of you the chance of a lifetime to smell genuine Kansas feedlot in your face. I couldn't bring myself to have beef at dinner tonight because the feedlot smell was still stuck in ...
Goodbye again!
... family in the world. Anyway, everyone at KU had final projects and stuff and it was Margot's birthday so I decided to stay in Kansas City! Jason bought a house so I checked that out. No furniture but many stolen items from my house (ex. My towles, ...
Kansas City
... ; We were treated to a Baseball game and dinner/drinks in the stadium club and loved wondering around the stunning Plaza (Kansas City is Seville's sister city) and downtown KC. The weather wasn't kind but it didn't matter - we had a ...
The Journey Home! - KC
The largest blessing out of our exhausting day was seeing my wife's face waiting for me outside the gate in KC. It was like watching my first sunset and firework's show all together at the same time. As I hugged her, the joy of being home ...
Finally - Kansas City
... (the state capital). We had some thin crust pizza right across the street from the capital building..... We arrived in Kansas City around 8:30 PM and it took about an hour and a half to find a hotel and get cleaned ...
Home at Last
The actual flight home was uneventful was a far cry from the excitement I used to get from flying. It was nice to finally be able to plug my headphones in and listen to the pilots talk on the radio. When I arrived at the airport I was a little surprised ...
Visited downtown
As we entered Missouri we were hit by a amazing smell of coffee...yes coffee...I love coffee...so we will for sure find a good place for coffe around here...not Starbucks....someting ...
43 hours and counting
... quest for a golden chalice of unforgettable experience and been left with a hand full of dust that gets blown away by the wind off the Kansas prairie...that would suck. Why is the army motto "Be all that you can be?" when it could be "Do all that you ...
Home again!
That was a long flight but I'm finally back home. The "kiddies" are good and hanging around me now. Looks like I got a lot of cat hair to vacuum. Thanks for hanging around. ...
Festivus- The Holiday for the Rest of us!!
... the Holiday for the rest of us began. This year was the Second Annual Festivus celebration held by my sister Cori in Kansas City. After hearing stories about the first annual celebration, I just couldn't miss this year... not even for Bobby's party ...
