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Kansas
Travel Blog
Chronicling
changes to KansasTravel.org and Keith's exploration
& photographing Kansas restaurants, attractions, museums, festivals
and art. Contact him.
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| Friday
- January 1, 2021: Updated our page devoted to the Scandia
Museum in Scandia, Kansas. The does not have a web site of its own
and does not have a Facebook page.
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| Saturday
- January 2, 2021: We added a new page devoted to the Railroad &
Mining Museum in Osage City, which we visited in October. The museum has
not had regular hours for years, but Cathryn Houghton and Richard Youngers
had agreed to meet us and showed us around. The highlights of the museum
are the beautiful mission Spanish revival style depot, a large model railroad
created by Richard Youngers and Santa Fe Park located across the railroad
tracks just west of the depot.
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Railroad & Mining Museum |
| Monday
- January 4, 2021: With 3-4 inches of snow on the ground and a sunny
day, I drove to Leavenworth National Cemetery in Leavenworth, Kansas to
photograph the graves with Wreaths Across America in place. When I pulled
in I saw no wreaths at first, then saw 3 or four. Continuing into the cemetery,
it was obvious that Leavenworth had received less snow.
Near
the Rest House I found a group of 13 graves with wreaths, but continued
on until I finally found some areas with a hundred or a few hundred graves.
It seemed like they were all in the areas with the least snow, but they
were placed weeks before the snowfall, so that was only coincidence.
laid
3,924 wreaths this year and is down from almost 7,000 wreaths last year.
There are over 36,000 graves in the cemetery.
I
also visited nearby Mount Muncie Cemetery, in Lansing, just a few hundred
feet away.
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Wreaths Across America
Mount Muncie Cemetery
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| Thursday
- January 7, 2021: The combination of few eagles and COVID19 have resulted
in the canceling of Milford Eagle Day,
which was scheduled for this Saturday. The warm winter has kept the rivers
and lakes farther north from freezing and there is less reason for the
eagles to come this far south. Justice, the Bald Eagle, and Kamali, the
Golden Eagle can still be seen in the Milford
Nature Center when it is open.
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Eagles at Milford Lake |
| Saturday
- January 9, 2021:
We visited d'Bronx, a pizza and deli restaurant, to update its listing
on our Overland Park Restaurant Guide.
Due to COVID-19, food is only available by carry out. There are signs saying
no more than two customers inside at one time, but some customers were
ignoring that.
We
had calzones and Reuben sandwich. The calzones traveled well, but the sandwich
was a poorer choice for carry out. We are glad to see d'Bronx stay open
and it appeared that business was steady.
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calzones |
| Sunday
- January 10, 2021:
We continue to update KC area restaurant information at this time of year
when travel is less appealing, today we had curbside pickup from Blind
Box BBQ in Lenexa which is included in our Kansas
City BBQ Guide.
As
expected, barbeque travels better than many cuisines and it was still quite
good when we got it home. We had a smoked wing appetizer and a half chicken
dinner with fries and street corn. Even the fires were still good after
the 10 minute drive.
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Half chicken dinner |
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