Vacation Day 7 – Jul 2, 2009

Started the day by visiting the nearby Harley Davidson factory in Kansas City. I’m not a bike person, but I appreciate craftsmanship and HD’s ability to gardner customer loyalty.

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After the trip to HD, we hunted down a local bookstore (Prospero’s) where Jen found a couple of treasures and then walked around downtown KC. We found the library, which has a really impressive display of large books that decorate the outside of the library’s parking structure.
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We also found a neat little market and picked up some fruit.
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We headed back to the hotel and walked over to the crown center where we had a really unremarkable lunch. We took and hour or so out to check email and catch up with the outside world.
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We headed out to Kauffman Stadium to see the White Sox vs the Royals. It lives in a sport’s complex similar to Philadelphia where there is a baseball stadium next to a football stadium, etc .. It was really out in the middle of nowhere with nothing around it. It felt a lot more like a nice minor-league stadium. Burhle pitched a great game and we had great seats, nothing could have been better.

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Still on the Road

Pretty rare internet access, at least in terms of available time. Things are going well, we’re beating the tar out of the midwest and getting our travel on. Heading out of KC tomorrow morning and on to Des Moines. Shortly after that it’ll be back home to the land of Skokie. Vacations, they go by far too quickly.

I’ve got GBs of photos to clean up and upload and pages of text to copy-paste to the blog. Not likely to happen until returning homeward, unless we catch an ill night of baseball rain-out.

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