Everything really is up to date in Kansas City. Or at least, it will be after they finish ripping up every single damn freeway there.
I'm sorry. Somehow KC has rubbed me the wrong way. Maybe it's just that I don't like barbeque. Every time I've been there as an adult, I just want to leave. The road system is completely screwed (and that's without the construction) and finding things always seems impossible. We spent 45 minutes this time trying to locate a motel.
But again, tourism wasn't our motivation. My aunt has lived on the Kansas side a number of years and now my grandmother is in a nursing home there, too. We spent a lot of slow, quiet moments, but I was still glad for the time, and though my grandma is showing early Alzheimer's, there's plenty left of her to enjoy the visit, and it was a nice, albeit hot and humid, three days. I'll try to be optimistic about the next time.
We also had dinner with a former coworker of Vivian's from back in the day when (I still can't fathom why) she decided that living in the Midwest would be a fun and adventurous thing to do.
And then, we got out of Dodge.
Miles: 5075
Posted by yozhik at July 28, 2003 10:35 PM