Blogs from Kansas, United States, North America - page 24

Fayetteville has made itself out to be "that" town which will draw me back to Arkansas. The beautiful people which I have run into speak southern hospitality. In the beginning stage of Fayetteville I couchsurfed with Drew Swayne. Everyone would be better off for having this guy in their life. Under his wing I was taken to Eureka Springs. Speechless on what an amazing place this was...and it still wonders my mind how I encountered the band I met earlier in Little Rock. So there we are browsing the shops, taking in the art, candy shops, and trinket spaces when, from the street..."PATRICK!" Kyle from Poor Boy Tango dashes out of the moving car and runs up with a greeting hug. Kyle, Trish and Patrick have drove up to play a show; Matt, Rob and Chris ... read more

This is just to test out this thing and make sure I know what I'm doing. I am very much NOT Technically Savvy. . . But hey, I'll do my best. . . .... read more

I just decided the week before that I was going to take the opportunity that Easter brought and use 4 days to get to Vicksburg Military Park then ride the Natchez Trace. It was funny that the trip originally started as just heading to Eureka Springs, AR for a couple days, but the weather wasn’t forecasted to be that great there. And I wanted some warm weather. Farther south it was looking better, when I saw Vicksburg on the map I knew that is where I needed to head. Then Vicksburg is just a short distance from the southern end of the Natchez Trace… The plan was to get to Vicksburg on Thursday. Friday morning I would spend a couple hours at the Vicksburg National Military Park. Then head south to the Natchez MS and start ... read more

Working a high stress sales job has driven me to find outlets to burn off anxiety and learn how to relax again. Planning my yearly beach outings is just the carrot I needed to get me through the long winters and the most annoying meeting. My next carrot is a Western Caribbean Cruise on Royal Caribbean Liberty of the Seas Let the count down begin~ ... read more

On the train to Kansas City we meet a woman and her son returning from Washington DC. They had been invited to the inauguration of President Barack Obama as the son, Rexy Planner had been the president of a youth movement for the Obama campaign in the state of Missouri. They had met Obama during the early stages of his campaign, the boy was only eight or nine years old. The mum showed us photographs and told us the tale of their experience, meeting J-Lo and other celebrates, squeezing through thousands of people to get in and how the met an 86 year old woman who had witnessed lynchings and been active in the civil rights movement and now at eighty six years old had travelled, on her own thousands of miles by train to see ... read more