Last week I traveled to Kansas City, MO for a conference. I had never been there before, and I always try to walk around and take photos to get a feel for a place whenever I visit it for the first time. Here’s a complete set of photos.
The airport is Brutalist, which is cool, obvs.
One unfortunate aspect of this trip was that I was afflicted with food poisoning, which (I think) was triggered from food I ate the night before leaving. So that means I spent a lot of time on the first day and night in my hotel, recuperating.
I did get out a little bit. Turns out Kansas City has bike share:
The Country Club Plaza area is pretty interesting.
It’s right by Brush Creek, which was frozen.
They really subscribe to the Inscrutable Statue school of public design
Winston Churchill and his wife are down with that.
Country Club Plaza is basically the first shopping center in the world designed to accommodate shoppers arriving by automobile. They’re all about Spanish design.
Even the alleys have frescoes.
All in all, I’m down with Kansas City, MO.
