{"id":2138,"date":"2010-12-17T19:53:24","date_gmt":"2010-12-18T03:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/?p=2138"},"modified":"2017-06-08T01:18:07","modified_gmt":"2017-06-08T08:18:07","slug":"show-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2010\/12\/17\/show-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Show Me"},"content":{"rendered":"

The great expedition of discovery to Kansas was pushed back a day – instead I spent a chilly and icy morning slipping on the walkways near the Gateway Arch<\/a> and the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial<\/a> in St. Louis, followed by a drive across the rest of the Show Me state. After a mid-morning departure from St. Louis the state’s backroads led to the capital of Jefferson City, so I detoured and explored what turned out to be an amazing Capitol building that was almost completely open to the public – maybe it’s because the state government is on holiday break, but there were no security checks and no one seemed to mind that a slightly hairy, fairly smelly 35 year old was roaming the halls.<\/p>\n

The afternoon led on a roundabout tour past the distressingly touristy Lake of the Ozarks – I quit counting after the fifth go-cart course and ten millionth houseboat – and this journal entry is being made from a Starbucks at the state’s western edge, just outside of Kansas City. The plan for the rest of the night and tomorrow includes heading into Kansas to try and find a place to park the Subaru for the evening, followed by a morning visit to the Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve<\/a>. After that it’s anyone’s guess what other wonders the amazing Sunflower state might have to offer.<\/p>\n

\"Canadian<\/p>\n

I was sliding across icy walkways at dawn with frozen hands trying to figure out how to photograph the Gateway Arch in a way that hasn’t already been done a million times when I heard a flock of geese flying up from the Mississippi River – problem solved.<\/div>\n

\"Frozen<\/p>\n

The Missouri Capitol was an unexpected find. I only had a half hour (parking issues…) but managed to roam all over this impressive structure, including through the giant rotunda.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The great expedition of discovery to Kansas was pushed back a day – instead I spent a chilly and icy morning slipping on the walkways near the Gateway Arch and the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial in St. Louis, followed by a drive across the rest of the Show Me state. After a mid-morning departure from … Continue reading “Show Me”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[8,30],"class_list":["post-2138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal","tag-banjo-tour","tag-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2138"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11082,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2138\/revisions\/11082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}