Today we drove back through KC and went along Ward Parkway to see some of the old mansions. An old friend from Mankato has a daughter living in that area. They are both physicians and are redoing an old mansion. Not sure if we saw it but we did see the Dobb’s, lawyers, $20 mil house. Theirs was right by that one and they were all bigggg.
As we drove towards Topeka we gave Mike and Connie B. a call. Spent many campouts with him while I was working in scouts. He was home and available that eve. When we arrived we headed straight to the state capitol dome. What an enjoyable tour by Larry Wills the singing tour guide. Along the way he sang ditties he had researched of the times in Kansas. We ended up singing Home, Home On The Range, the state song. We did this as a threesome in one of the corridors. The capitol is undergoing renovations since 2000 and will be done 2012. Sounds like government work to me. The murals were plentiful and showed the state highlights. Along with there part in the civil war, which was new to us. The granite, marble, and gold leaf. Being downtown we drove around and found no place to eat but fast food and stopped for the last time at McDonalds.
The rest of the afternoon was spent visiting the Brown V Board of Education, Monroe elementary black school. This was interesting as we found that the suit was picked for here because the state was sympathetic toward the blacks. It is a National Park site, well done. It like President Harry Truman’s legacy said, he integrated the blacks into the service and that is when it all began, 80 years after the civil war. With Presidents JFK and Johnson carried on the law.
Now to dinner with Mike and Connie. We OnStarred their house or close. As we got close we could meander by GPS screen to where they lived. We heard about the Topeka Steakhouse and off we head. Gave the address to OnStar and they had trouble finding it and so did we. We laughed as it told us to do things we didn’t do and gave use ‘make a legal U-turn. We finally stopped for directions and seeing it was a tough area, one Mike had worked around when in the Salvation Army in Topeka. Well it was with two blocks from where we turned around and came back to the gas station. It was in Tecumseh, name of the submarine I was on. We had ribeye’s and KC Cuts, baked potatoes came with ¾ stick butter sticking out of them, the hash browns crispy with fried onions. Great time was spent together. We dropped them at home and off we are headed west on 70 to Eisenhower’s Presidential library in Abilene. We went another 70 miles out and stayed at the Comfort Inn, poor internet, hope I can post tomorrow.
You know where we are headed today but not sure tonight. jerr
As we drove towards Topeka we gave Mike and Connie B. a call. Spent many campouts with him while I was working in scouts. He was home and available that eve. When we arrived we headed straight to the state capitol dome. What an enjoyable tour by Larry Wills the singing tour guide. Along the way he sang ditties he had researched of the times in Kansas. We ended up singing Home, Home On The Range, the state song. We did this as a threesome in one of the corridors. The capitol is undergoing renovations since 2000 and will be done 2012. Sounds like government work to me. The murals were plentiful and showed the state highlights. Along with there part in the civil war, which was new to us. The granite, marble, and gold leaf. Being downtown we drove around and found no place to eat but fast food and stopped for the last time at McDonalds.
The rest of the afternoon was spent visiting the Brown V Board of Education, Monroe elementary black school. This was interesting as we found that the suit was picked for here because the state was sympathetic toward the blacks. It is a National Park site, well done. It like President Harry Truman’s legacy said, he integrated the blacks into the service and that is when it all began, 80 years after the civil war. With Presidents JFK and Johnson carried on the law.Now to dinner with Mike and Connie. We OnStarred their house or close. As we got close we could meander by GPS screen to where they lived. We heard about the Topeka Steakhouse and off we head. Gave the address to OnStar and they had trouble finding it and so did we. We laughed as it told us to do things we didn’t do and gave use ‘make a legal U-turn. We finally stopped for directions and seeing it was a tough area, one Mike had worked around when in the Salvation Army in Topeka. Well it was with two blocks from where we turned around and came back to the gas station. It was in Tecumseh, name of the submarine I was on. We had ribeye’s and KC Cuts, baked potatoes came with ¾ stick butter sticking out of them, the hash browns crispy with fried onions. Great time was spent together. We dropped them at home and off we are headed west on 70 to Eisenhower’s Presidential library in Abilene. We went another 70 miles out and stayed at the Comfort Inn, poor internet, hope I can post tomorrow.
You know where we are headed today but not sure tonight. jerr
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