Kansas City

Posted on August 26, 2006
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Woke up in Kansas City this AM and jogged along Brush Creek, in a neighborhood full of memorials to Civil War battles (at the scene of McGhee’s charge, Confederate Colonel McGhee and Union Captain Johnson fought hand to hand: McGhee was slain, Johnson was wounded).

The hour-and-15 minute flight from Denver took more than 6 hours thanks to thunderstorms. United pilot Pat Sullivan told me you don’t fly into thunderstorms, because you might not fly back out. After a final one-hour holding pattern near Kansas City we made it in, though the plane appeared to have been struck by lightning on the way down. We’re here for family friend Lucy Carrott’s wedding…