Blogs from Kansas, United States, North America - page 26

Well today was a busy busy busy day! We started the day off at the Saint Louis Arch. If you know my father you will know he doesn't like lines so even though we weren't planning on jetting off too early, as soon as he saw the whites of my eyes I was urged to get ready so we could "get on the road." Mind you that was at 7am! Regardless we ended up at the base of the Arch just as it was opening for business. Let me tell you that pictures do not do it justice! It stands 630 feet above the ground and its just massive! You have to descend to an underground area which houses a musuem and a theater and some shops and you can buy a ticket to ride up ... read more

Most of these blogs are about trips I have taken with my Harley Davidson Sportster. A 2005 883cc Low model I have travelled the US with it. It makes travel much cheaper as it gets 50MPG, but anyway this is a day trip I took from KC on a Wednesday. I had been wanting to get back to Greensburg but just hadn't made it so I decided to do it the first decent day that I could get off. So in 2007 I ran through Greensburg KS and Mullinville KS on the way home from Colorado. I stopped and took pictures of these whirly gigs that were located along the highway (hwy 54). They were labeled as KANZA ART and I wrote a blog just about them . Well this year I headed out to go ... read more

I've had this blog set up for over a month now and I decided it's probably about time that I write something, especially since I'll be jet-setting to Ecuador tomorrow. Monday I'll be at the Hacienda Sta. Martha in the Andes playing with all sorts of fun animals. "Playing" here basically means cleaning up their poop and building fun new enclosures for them. It should be fabulous. I packed my rubber boots. My 8 lb. rubber boots and the reason I'll be wearing one of 2 outfits in every photo I post on here for the next year since nothing else will fit in my backpack... I'm a big ball of mixed emotions: excitement, fear, more excitement, sadness, even more excitement, and oh-geez-I-don't-know-any-Spanish. I'll try to post a few times while I'm there, but I have ... read more

I’m really starting to fall behind on my daily blogging, and I apologize if any of you worry about me when I don’t blog daily. It is not that I don’t enjoy blogging, I just have a lot of things I have been doing with old friends. When I have the time I like to blog. And I know the days of this trip are coming to an end. I will be home in 6 days! Ok, time to do some catching up. Thursday afternoon I headed to Lincoln and over to Rick and Wanda’s, like I probably mentioned in the last entry. We had dinner together, then Jared and I headed into Best Buy and get The Office season 4 on DVD. Rachel came over and we all watched The Office for a while, good ... read more

Greetings! Sometimes your that bat...& sometimes your the ball, as my friend Pewamo likes to say. This weekend I get to participate in the first annual Lawrence Busker Festival. Along with my band, Zydeco Tougeau, we did not have to travel a long ways to participate, but it was fun & Educational. The thing I really like about performing on the street is the close contact with the "audience", who often become part, or the main attraction, of the show. This is really true of little kids... When we can get one or more cute little kids dancing on the sidewalk, they become the "main attraction" & we become the accompanyment,,,,, which is fine with me. Also, it's fun to get people who are on their way somewhere else, to stop, & listen & sometime dance, ... read more