Or, as some like to call it, “Misery”.  😉 I’m in Kansas City. Why “Kansas City” is in Missouri…well….I’m sure there’s probably a story behind that (and it probably has something to do with the civil war). Anyway, when I was a kid I was a Kansas City Chiefs fan even though I lived in … More Greetings from Missouri

Some photos from a visit to the National Guard Armory’s museum. The museum TOW anti-tank missile A replica of “The Swamp” set from the TV show “MASH”, made by a guy in Orlando FL. It sat in his backyard for years. An 8-inch self-propelled howitzer, nuclear-capable M1 Abrams Main Battle Tank CH-54 Skycrane cargo helicopter … More Kansas National Guard Museum

OK, I never get tired of looking at old airplanes. And this one had a few that I had not seen before. The museum. That’s an Honest John tactical nuclear missile out front. Outside is an EC-121 Warning Star. This was an early version of an AWACS (Airborne Warning and Control System) which uses radars … More Combat Air Museum

Every state capitol seems to have its history museum. This is one of the nicer ones that I’ve been in. Some photos. The museum Inside the museum An airplane built by aviator AK Longren in 1914 Gravestone of one of the people killed in the raid on Lawrence in 1854: Kansas was at the time … More Kansas Museum of History

Well, I went to visit the Kansas Museum of History today only to find that it isn’t open on Mondays. Doh! But the Kansas Historical Society grounds are right next to it, so I spent the afternoon walking around there. The site has a couple historic buildings and several miles of nature trails. Some photos. … More Kansas Historical Society

This is a VERY small museum tucked away in an office building, consisting mostly of model airplanes, ships, and tanks. It is free, though, and has a few genuine articles, and is apparently a labor of love for the volunteers–they were eager to talk “history” with me. Some photos: The museum Inside the museum A … More Holley Museum of Military History

[NOTE: I’ve blogged all these “how-to” posts before, but am gonna re-run them on occasion, since folks may have missed them, and many of them have been updated or expanded since they were first posted.] To stay in touch with the rest of the world while on the road, I depend on my little netbook … More Internet, Cellphone, and Staying in Touch

Yeh, I like zoos.  🙂  This is a small zoo in a small city with a small budget, but still very nice. Some photos: The Zoo for such a small zoo, it had really nice landscaping Orangutan Some Giraffe porn. This poor guy tried and tried and tried, but she wanted nothing to do with … More Topeka Zoo

The Brown v Board of Education National Historic Site in Topeka consists of just a single building—an old brick schoolhouse that looks not much different than the one I went to when I was a kid. But this little school building is a giant in American history. The 1954 Supreme Court decision in Brown v … More Brown v Board of Education Historic Site

The drive from Oklahoma to Kansas was six hours of monotony–nothing but grass prairie and the occasional cows. But here I am.  🙂 Kansas State Capitol Topeka, the state capitol of Kansas, had a history checkered with conflict. At the time Kansas was organized as a territory in 1855, it was bitterly divided over the … More Greetings from Topeka KS