My infatuation with the smoky meat started with a former boss of mine who was from Austin, Texas. He taught me all about Texas barbecue and we made a point to try every single barbecue restaurant in south Denver on our lunch breaks. Through that experience, I learned what I liked and what I didn’t like about barbecue.
Before I started traveling, my barbecue options were limited to whatever I could find in Denver. My city has some decent barbecue restaurants, but it is certainly not one of the legendary barbecue destinations such as Memphis, Texas, the Carolinas, or Kansas City. Now that...
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One of my new favorite websites is Roadside America – an online guide to offbeat tourist attractions across America. It lists the quirky, odd, eccentric, and unusual attractions that usually don’t make it into the guidebooks. I first started using this website on my recent trip to Kansas City and have been looking up unique destinations everywhere I’ve been since.
When I don’t have much time in a city to experience the larger, more time consuming sites, visiting these quick roadside attractions offers a great alternative way to experience aspects of the city. During a brief weekend trip...
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Welcome to the next edition of The Travel Rinse Repeat Roundup from Kansas, USA! I've been traveling throughout the great Sunflower state, from Kansas City (which is actually primarily in Missouri) to the college towns of Lawrence and Manhattan, to the cities of Wichita and Topeka and finally ending up right back where I started in KC. I expect to be spending a significant amount of time working in Wichita over the next month or two, so of course I'll be looking for the interesting, the unique, the beautiful, and the delicious here in America's heartland.
Today's header image is of Union Station...
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