Blogs from Kansas City, Missouri, United States, North America - page 4

Just back from dinner at Gates Barbecue in Kansas City, Missouri. Apologies for the lapse in travel blog postings, but here is the update since Saint Louis. Terrible idea to drive on a Sunday in Missouri - the traffic was horrible. But we arrived in Kansas City in 4.5 hours and got checked into the Hilton Hotel President...seemed appropriate, huh? We are about two blocks from the Power and Light District - live music, restaurants, shops and pubs. We went for a quick bite and decided to see a movie. But before I get to that a couple of observations: At the Power and Light District, Jim was stopped twice for his "professional camera" which was against the policy of the complex. Regardless of how adamant we were that the camera is our family camera, the ... read more

Day 17 Colorado Springs to Kansas City, MO Another sunny day! Wow! The high today in Colorado Springs is going to be 75 degrees with no humidity and in Baltimore 103 degrees with high humidity....hmmm...way are we heading east? Ah, but East we must go....right through Kansas! Whoot...don’t everyone get excited all at once! Ok...so we had to look a few things up....but did you know that the world’s largest remaining tract of tallgrass prarie is in Kansas....yeh...whew....surprised me too! No, but really, stuff happened in Kansas..... The world’s largest ball of twine is in Cawker City, W.C. Coleman of lantern fame was born in KS as were Amelia Earhart, Walter P. Chrysler, Dwight D Eisenhower, and Bob Dole. With all that happening in Kansas we are so embarrassed for making fun of Kansas in the ... read more

Well, we made it safely to Kansas City, Missouri. I am ashamed to admit I thought we were going to Kansas City Kansas! If you look at a map of the area, you can drive around the Missouri river and be in Kansas one minute and Missouri the next. Kansas City, Kansas is actually a smaller city than Kansas City, Missouri and it is actually a suburb of Kansas City in Missouri (or Missoura, if you were born there). As one of the pit bosses was telling me, Kansas City is sistered with Seville Spain and their mall is designed after the one in Seville. We spent two nights there and left the morning of the 17th. People we taled to convinced us to drive straight through to Chicago. Our sightseeing that day consisted of visiting ... read more

Alright, back to it… As I’d mentioned in the previous blog, we arrived in San Simeon late in the evening, hungry and tired. First priority was finding a place to stay, followed closely by identifying a place to eat. After traveling up and the down the strip, which appeared to be the entire town, we decided on the Silver Surf Motel for lodging and the restaurant attached to the San Simeon Lodge for dinner. High class, all the way! The bar was nearly empty and about ready to close when we walked in. The chef probably couldn’t have been too happy with us but to our amazement we were not even the last to arrive. Our hunger outweighed any feelings of guilt anyhow. As could be expected the next morning we got moving slowly and were ... read more

When travel plans go bad, they can really go bad. I don't want to focus on the negative but today I got to the airport just in time to hear that all flights out of KC had been canceled due to the fog. They booked me on the first flight out on Monday but were skeptical it would go. I found out it had been canceled by my colleage but when I called Continental they had changed it to Monday night connecting to my Mumbai flight on Tuesday so I would have spent 24 hours in Newark. I definitely would have been peeved if I had shown up at the airport at 4:30 AM to find that out. When I told continental that I wanted the original Monday night flight to Mumbai they wanted to charge ... read more