Midwest Baseball Game Tour - Leg 2: Kansas City, Occupation 3
In Part 1 of our fourth dimension inwards Kansas City, nosotros saw where President Truman lived, had a repast at the City Market, too got frustrated amongst the hotel too our immature human being guests at the Residence Inn. Part 2 was the Royals game at Kauffman Stadium too moving out of our hotel when it turned inwards Delta House.
All the baseball game is directly over, fourth dimension to pass our finally solar daytime of the trip...
Oh, what a peaceful black of blissful slumber nosotros had at the Drury Inn.
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It’s getting downward to the wire. We’ve seen all the baseball game we’ve come upward to see. Been to several states too iii major American cities. Our finally total solar daytime on the tour too we’re create to add together ane to a greater extent than goal to our list. Letty too Tim conduct maintain never been to all but ii of the states on this trip. Same for me, except I’d already been to Kansas. We slept over the nation describe of piece of job from Kansas City but it even therefore feels similar we’re inwards Missouri therefore today, we’re going to experience The Wheat State.
It’s only an hr or therefore to the capitol of Topeka. After a ride on highway 10, a spear that runs most of the means at that spot from our hotel, nosotros shift over to the seventy which is a toll route here. It costs all of 75 cents for that finally leg into the capitol
Our start goal is Monroe Elementary School, a few blocks southeast of the capitol building. In 1954, Oliver Brown sued the board of didactics to allow his immature adult woman to attend a white school. Topeka schools were segregated then. Even though Monroe past times all accounts was a model school, the declaration that segregation lone was plenty to nullify the equal component subdivision of the “separate but equal” policy of the day. Backed past times the NAACP, Brown vs. the Board of Education went all the means to the Supreme Court who used it to overturn legal segregation.
Now a National Historic Park, the pocket-size schoolhouse…historic too interesting inwards itself…is broken into ii top dog areas…a infinite that details what led to the case, the legal strategy involved, too the litigation; too some other that documents events that conduct maintain followed upward since that time.
It’s a moving too of import display. My married adult woman was wracked amongst sadness at it all but I intend nosotros should await at it every bit a turning indicate where nosotros started to conduct maintain the self-awareness to start addressing these wrongs.
Heading over to the capitol, nosotros elbow grease unopen to the being-renovated edifice to uncovering a spot gratis of scaffolding to accept a picture. About a mile away is the Bobo Drive-In that nosotros saw on the Diners, Drive-ins, too Dives present but beingness a Sunday, it was closed. In fact, inwards this Bible-Belt Kansas town, non much was opened upward therefore nosotros caput dorsum to a java store nosotros saw earlier, the Hanover Pancake House.
It’s packed amongst subsequently church building diners but nosotros entirely hold off nigh 5 minutes for a table. We instruct pancakes, French toast, hash browns, the ever acquaint biscuits too gravy, too Tim has chicken strips amongst mashed potatoes. What a revelation this house is. Some of the best comfort nutrient I’ve had. The pancakes, perfect amongst only a hint of compaction on the outer skin, fluffy too light, no mealiness at all. Crunchy too delicious hash browns, some superb sausage gravy over those biscuits, too the mashed potatoes tasted similar they were one-half cream.
Incredibly delicious.
UPDATE: One to a greater extent than pic of the Pancake House, every bit per requested inwards the comments below. This is the entirely other pic I conduct maintain therefore this makes all the pictures nosotros conduct maintain of this wonderful restaurant.
After eating, nosotros caput a few miles W to the Kansas State Museum, which acts of a sort of Smithsonian for Kansas history. It’s some other interesting halt every bit the expansive displays accept you lot through history from the pre-U.S. native days, the settling of the frontier, Bloody Kansas too the Missouri Compromise, ranching, farming, railroads, too modern life. Definitely worth a stop.
I accept my married adult woman to a nearby common where she tin uncovering a stone (she collects rocks from everywhere nosotros visit) too therefore it’s dorsum to the hotel.
We suspension out some wine, the cheese, fruit, too breadstuff nosotros bought yesterday. I choose grip of some popcorn too soda from the Drury Inn lobby, too nosotros settle inwards to spotter our dear Cowboys complete 2d to Dan too Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan on The Amazing Race before getting ane to a greater extent than black of practiced sleep.
In the morning, nosotros pack up, brand a halt at the huge Cabela’s sporting goods store, too therefore conduct maintain dejeuner at the Five Guys burger articulation following to the Kansas Speedway. The burgers are delicious.
I’d unremarkably terminate hither but ane to a greater extent than thing…
We instruct to the airdrome inwards Kansas City. Go through the lines too finally instruct through safety entirely to uncovering out that all the amenities…new stand, practiced restaurants, most of the bathrooms…are on the exterior of the secure zone. Waiting amongst nigh a M other travelers, nosotros uncovering entirely a brace of sparsely supplied snack bars too a total of 8 toilets…4 for the men too four for the ladies.
Just an incredibly outdated airport.
It was a peachy trip, nosotros only had a few bobbles to overcome, but the atmospheric condition cooperated for the games, nosotros constitute some surprising gems, too ane heck of a hotel chain. Thanks for coming along!
By the numbers:
Stadiums Visited/Games Attended: 3
Stadium total: xx for Tim, 21 for Darryl too Letty (we went to a game at Oakland ane time without Tim)
States Visited: 7
New States Added: four for Darryl, 5 for Letty too Tim
Length: eleven days
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