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| I am not in Kansas today |
The pessimist curses an unfavorable wind.
The optimist is certain the wind will change.
The realist, adjusts the sails or alters course.
A handful of things stand out. We flew in and out of Kansas City Airport, the airport is in Missouri, just across the state line from Kansas City Kansas. After the training finished the hosts took us out for a drink. When we went to pick up the car, the garage was closed for the weekend. A call to the after hours emergency number and someone came over and let us out.
Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska are much the same. Rolling grass and farmland punctuated with medium sized cities in the middle of the United States. This region is known as fly over country, because that is how most people see them, flying over them.
I've heard the term 'flyover states' before, perhaps used by you, and it creates a perfectly descriptively image. We don't really have flyover states.
ReplyDeleteI expect there are attractions for visitors in all three states, but not many see them. I can guess these areas quite like #47.
#47, lots of vacant space between is ears.
DeleteIf any residents of Iowa, Kansas and Nebraska read this, they are going to be coming after you with pitchforks and burning torches or maybe Massey Ferguson tractors and massive combine harvesters.
ReplyDeleteThey would have to venture into the scary and hostile city to find me.
DeleteI’ve been to Kansas a couple of times to visit family. I’m sure there are things to love and to make it home. I didn’t see them.
ReplyDeleteEveryone has to live someplace, I am glad I was able to move to where I wanted to be.
DeleteI flyover. I might like to see those places but there doesn't seem to be a draw.
ReplyDeleteA long slow coast to coast drive?
DeleteThat's a good description of that part of the world. When I was consulting, I met a friend in Kansas City for a weekend. We had fun making each other laugh.
ReplyDeleteThe world needs more laughter.
DeleteI had a good friend and former boss who ran a tv station in Wichita for awhile. He once told a guy who came from out of state for a job interview that if he would spend a week there he'd never want to leave. And he didn't.
ReplyDeleteBloom where we are planted.
DeleteWell, you certainly aren't in Kanas anymore.
ReplyDeleteMany of those states in and around Kanas all look the same to me. Hence why I'm in no hurry to see them.
I'd sooner go back to NYC or SF
DeleteMy Maternal grandma came from Kanasa.
ReplyDeleteA good state to be from?
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