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North America » United States » Missouri » Kansas City September 4th 2021

Donald J. Hall Sculpture Park Kanas City Missouri The collection began in 1986 when the Hall Family Foundation acquired 57 works by artist Henry Moore. In 1989. Aaron & Patrick always give so much detailed information on their tours, I couldn’t remember every piece but these are some of the details that I could remember. Mark Di Suvero, Rumi, the first steel sculpture we saw, painted the orange colour of San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge. Named for Jala al-Din Rumi, the 13th-century Persian poet and spiritual leader. Claes Oldenburg’s Shuttlecocks - 5 dotted around the park made from aluminium, & fibreglass reinforced plastic George Segal, American Rush Hour. 5 people oblivious to one another during rush hour. Magdalena Abakanowicz, Standing Figures, Each figure is individually cast from a burlap-lined body mold. Alexander Calder, ... read more

North America » United States » Missouri » Kansas City May 21st 2018

I left for Kansas City early so I can meet some cousins for lunch that I last saw a few days before Paul was born 36 years ago when I was here on a business trip. To explain the relationship, my grandmother (father’s mother) and their grandfather were 2 of 3 siblings that was able to get out of Russa and immigrate to the US. There were 13 children in all. We all shared our great—grandfather who I was named after. Interesting story I am learning about him. I forgot to take pictures of us all together. Lunch was with Diane, Mark, Jennifer, Steve and Neil. Spent the rest of the day walking around the area of my hotel.....lots of shopping, restaurants and a nice big park. The next morning, I visited a World War I ... read more
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North America » United States » Missouri » Kansas City April 25th 2018

It has been seven years since my last entry. I found this link and decided to test my old posting site.... read more

North America » United States » Missouri » Kansas City January 20th 2017

U.S. Figure Skating Championships Kansas City, Missouri Pitch black and pouring rain as we leave home at 4 am and head for the airport. Park in the dark, scramble through the rain to the brightly lit and welcoming Fresno Air Terminal. Quickly through security with our Pre-Check tickets and on to Starbucks ;-) We are off to mark something off Jean’s bucket list. To see, in person, the US Figure Skating Championships. Yep, Kansas City here we come! We have never done something like this so are excited to see world class skaters, Ashley Wagner, Olympic Silver in 2016, Gracie Gold, two- time Olympic champion, Chen and Maia, brother and sister- World and US 2016 silver and Nathen Chen, U.S. 2016 bronze medalist and many others. Watching the inauguration in our room today, getting caught up ... read more
Sprint Center, Kansas City
Nathan Chen
Gracie Gold

North America » United States » Missouri » Kansas City August 17th 2016

Bonjour à tous, Cette journée que j'avais prévue monotone et longue, est passée très vite, malgré près de 600 km. Comme il fait de nouveau chaud la journée, je décolle relativement tôt. Ce matin à 7h30, le plein est fait 20$, pour 580 km, ça peut aller. Comme hier je ne sais pas où je poser mes bottes ce soir. Les 250 premiers km, sont totalement en campagne, à travers champs, avec juste quelques vieux pickups de paysans. C'est vrais que jusqu'à Great Bend et même Salina, je l'ai trouvé longue cette route, que du maïs, du sorgho, quelques prairies totalement désertes. Au moins je n'ai pas vu d'usines à vaches, par contre oui aux odeurs oui. Je savais qu'à un moment ou un autre, je devrais reprendre l'autoroute, celle que je retrouve n'est pas une ... read more
Old Abilene
l'Amérique profonde
Main Street Kansas City

North America » United States » Missouri » Kansas City July 21st 2016

Geo: 39.103, -94.583Our sleep time in the restaurant is much like that on an airplane. Trying to get comfortable while keeping one eye open on the lookout for who knows what. We're in and out of sleep even with little outside disturbance during the night. It's about 4am when a few lights go on and I see some people rustling around at the counter, cleaning and preparing things. They don't say anything to any of us but I feel it's probably best to leave. Standing and looking around I can see some of our temporary tenants have already left while others remain, determined to get that last snooze. Karen breaks down our beds puts the chairs back like they were and we gather our things together to move along while additional lighting is turned on. They ... read more
Kansas City Airport This Morning - Nightmare!
Our Pool Upon Arrival at Home - Yuk.

North America » United States » Missouri » Kansas City June 3rd 2016

Bonjour à tous, Ce soir un grand bon à été fait plus de 700 km. Ici ils sont relativement faciles, pas besoin d'avoir, les yeux qui cherchent, soit les panneaux de limitation de vitesse, soit les radars, ou encore les flics, cachés comme des voleurs sur le bord de la route. Sur ce qu'ils appellent "principal highway" tu mets le régulateur de vitesse, pour moi à 120-125 pour 115, et tu ne risques rien. Aujourd'hui j'ai vu une bonne dizaine de voiture de police, dont des banalisées, distribuées des prunes. Pour certains ils venaient de me doubler en me laissant sur place. Le seul regret sur ces routes les grandes longueurs, c'est d'une monotonie sans nom. J'ai pour m'accompagner une clé usb avec environ 400 chansons, à mon goût, que j'ai préparé depuis des mois, pas ... read more
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Capitole Des Moines
une de Minneapolis !!!

North America » United States » Missouri » Kansas City December 29th 2015

Geo: 39.103, -94.583We woke-up this morning to very cold weather ~ first time we've had to wear our winter coats thus far this "winter." We grabbed some OJ and a banana from the hotel breakfast and slowly started driving to KC. We stopped in Clinton for some thermal underwear for Kamie and ear muffs for me. Clinton is about the half-way point and a tiny town with a Wal-Mart. The drive today was incredibly easy. It snowed the night before in KC and the surrounding area but the highway was clear and it was actually sunny today. The drive to KC is on a flat, four-way highway and much quicker & easier than it used to be. I think I prefer KC to STL - much less traffic. Once we got to Belton we stopped for ... read more
Ida Kay

North America » United States » Missouri » Kansas City March 5th 2015

Woke up in some confusion as I couldn't hear anyone else in the room. Than I realized I was in my friends Kelsey's apartment on her pull out couch. I was confused because I was so used to other people in the room. I woke up before Kelsey and did some blogging before she woke up. I looked out the window for a little while and admired the view of the Missouri river. It looked like a good place to go for a run in the morning even thought it looked cold. Kelsey woke up and we chatted for a bit before she went off to her work as a nanny. We would meet up for lunch later that day. I had no real plans for that day so I went out that morning and did ... read more

North America » United States » Missouri » Kansas City March 4th 2015

Just a few more long drives and I would be home and I can consider this trip a success. Left my final hostel of the trip, Hostel 66 at 7:30AM and mentally prepped myself for a 12 - 13 hour drive to Kansas City Missouri. I must admit I was already exhausted before starting just thinking about it. 2 hours in I made my first stop at Denny's. As far as I can tell I have been to a Denny's in basically every state on this trip. Standard breakfast with juice and it was tasty but I will say the waitress I had was quite rude to all her customers. She kept trying to hurry everyone along by coming back every 30 seconds and asked if "You ready yet". I didn't mind too much but other ... read more




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