The Almost Annual Pilgrimage to Kansas City, Missouri that is.
View from Liberty Memorial with Union Station in foreground and downtown beyond I was born and raised in Kansas City MO along with my five siblings and five cousins. I left in 1973 to move to Denver, then Detroit, then San Diego, and finally Rochester where I have lived for the past 35 years. I have lived longer in Rochester than I did in Kansas City but the place where you grew up and especially learned to drive will always be home. For most of those 35 years, I have traveled back to KC to visit my family. Mom and Dad and my three sisters stayed in KC while my two brothers and I left. This trip was special because I hadn't been home since January 2019 for the funeral of our baby sister, Louisa, and because all five of us were there at the same time. Along with four spouses--Peter, Johnny, Sarah and Marilyn--we spent five days doing fun things and seeing new places and plenty of old haunts. Typically we travel by car covering the 1,000 miles in two da...