Saturday, January 8, 2011

Kansas City, MO/KS

We arrived in Kansas City at 9:20 pm. We were so glad that our host Candace was waiting for us the Greyhound station with 2 friends, Jeff and Allison. Espetially after she told us that it wasn't the nicest part of town.
We went to the Country Club, a nice bar with country music in the background, for a couple of drinks.






On Sunday 9th Candace took us to the World War I museum. It's a really cool place, plenty of information about the war, but also quots from soldiers or other involved people and objects / clothes used at that time. It's definitely a good place to go for the ones interested in history.
We stayed at the museum until closure at 5 pm, but we took a lunch break and went to a barbecue place with Candace and her 2 friends, Jeff, an expert of barbecue in Kansas City, proposed the place. We really had to eat a barbecue in Kansas City and we are glad to have done it!


After the museum Candace guided us around with the car and showed us the city. It's an interesting city. With a mixture of old and new buildings. Also it seems like the city is widespread and not concentrated in one spot as the other cities we visited.














Back at her house she cooked delicious pasta with a pumpkin-cream sauce with nuts and cranberries.
We also were delighted by the presence of her cat Kitty!
After dinner Candace took us to the Greyhound station. This time we had our tickets and we were there more than one hour earlies. But still we had problems. Our bus departed with 2 hours delay, so we couldn't get the connecting bus to Nashville in St. Louis.



We stayed in St. Louis (at the station, at least this station had free wifi and we could plan the next cities) from 5 am to 9:30 am and then headet to Nashville. Another travel during the day!
A snowstorm is getting closer in Georgia, espetially in Atlanta (our next stop after Nashville!), Alabama, some cities in Tennesse. So a lot of busses couldn't run or were delayed.
Therefore this time the delays weren't Greyhound fault, at least we tryed to believe so. We still had some doubts, because during the trip Kansas City – St. Louis there wasn't a snowstorm and between St. Louis and Nashville neigher!?!?
The landscape is different from Kansas, there are more hills and more trees. The color is greener compareted with the previous landscape, but the predominant color is still yellow-brown.

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