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Travel Blogs from Overland Park

Great steak and family roots in KC

A travel blog entry by wheelerlj

I am too tired to write tonight. Many thanks to Gene, Greg and Garilyn Barner for a wonderful dinner last night and a grest tour of Kansas City and family roots this morning. We're in West Mining (or something like that!), Kansas, tonight, camping next to a giant -- and I do mean GIANT -- steam shovel. details tomorrow, after we get some sleep and take some ...

First day of crazy!

A travel blog entry by doublejam

I glance at the hills as we speed by, five more minutes and we’ll finally be in Independence Missouri. The trip was long and many hours were wasted goofing with my crew or sleeping. Needless to say it was an interesting journey. We all felt the train slow down and excited grins lit up our faces like a kid at a candy store. As we gathered our equipment and took the last step off the train, ...

A home for a few nights

A travel blog entry by jonanddes

We were blessed to be taken in to our friend's brothers home with his family. Dan and Erin plus their super fun daughters Laura and Molly! We stayed for two nights with them! All of them were so hospitable. We played Jenga with the girls and had a blast. Laura especially who is 9 was hilarious! She had such a sense of humor and Molly was very sweet! Erin made us a delicious dinner. They made us feel right at home! Thank you so much!! ...

Fun Fall Activities

A travel blog entry by jencape

... but they enjoyed it so much that Tony had to run back to the park to get more the next day (at Amber's request!), and started the "flurry" of them before trick-or-treaters started visiting - but then a pile caught on fire with the fire-pit fire Lee had going in the driveway, and then that was the end of hanging out in the driveway to greet trick-or-treaters - just glad the kids were ok, and no one was ...

Unending

A travel blog entry by tim_and_donna

Today we drove across Kansas. The drive only seemed unending, 400 miles of the same. I (Tim) wanted to leave early so we could be in Kansas City in time to watch the Steelers play the Eagles. We rolled into Kansas City in time for the second half and checked into the Sheraton (taking a break from the RV tonight) only to discover they had the 1PM Fox game blacked out. Oh well, we enjoyed a lovely dinner at the Brio Tuscan Grille and the Steelers won!

Tim
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