Day 110.

Posted on Tuesday, April 20, 2010 by Mike Buchholz

You know you are in Kansas City when…
…vanity plates are unprecedentedly blunt and disturbing:

IGOBNU License Plate

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Route 66

Posted on Monday, April 19, 2010 by Mike Buchholz

Starting driving down Route 66, only to find out that it is actually closed.  Well, here you go–the end of a national landmark:

Route 66 is Closed

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Gateway Arch; St. Louis, Missouri

Posted on Sunday, April 18, 2010 by Mike Buchholz

Made it to St. Louis, Missouri early this morning to walk the city and see the Gateway Arch.  I refused to pay for parking and opted instead to park along the water front (literally a couple feet from the water), next to a “No Parking” sign, located inside of a small gated-lot labeled “Employees Only.”  That’s two good reasons to tow my car, and one good reason to get a new rental if the river ever rises a couple inches.

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Monument Rocks National Natural Landmark; Grinnell, KS

Posted on Saturday, April 17, 2010 by Mike Buchholz

24 hours.

1,000 miles.

Run-ins with the police, wild animals, wild fires, and a heck of a lot of wrong-turns on roads you don’t want to get lost on.

But I’ll get to all that.

Monument Rocks National Natural Landmark; Grinnell, KS

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Day 106. Missouri Backroads

Posted on Friday, April 16, 2010 by Mike Buchholz

Chased my first storm since coming out to the mid-west. Unfortunately, the most I experienced was some strong winds, rain, and a little bit of lightning.  Followed the storm across NW Kansas through St. Joseph, Missouri before giving up.  Below shot was from my one-hour trip on back-roads, weaving between farmland, occasionally passing a tractor or two:

Missouri Backroads

When I got passed by a retro-fitted Jeep with a WWII-style machine gun rack sticking up from the passenger side and a 10-year old boy sitting behind the wheel with his mom in the passenger seat, I finally decided it was time to stick to the main roads.  I can’t apologize enough for not getting a picture of them, but frankly, I was pretty horrified at the time and didn’t want to be too obvious about my efforts to photograph them.  Sadly, the best I managed was a picture of their garage, which openly displayed to me the reason why (a) I got lost so many times and (b) why I almost got into so many accidents:

Garage in Northwestern Missouri

The entire garage was lined with these signs

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