Kansas City, Missouri

We had a quiet night, and this morning Paula and Tom shared the driving to Kansas City. The highway was surrounded by farmland for the most part and there were a few rolling hills. Once into the city, we were impressed by how much tall brick architecture there was. Although our hotel was on Main […]

Saint Louis, Missouri

(She’s hard to see, but that is Paula’s head at the bottom of the featured picture.) Last night we experienced a new form of severe weather: a derecho! A derecho is a widespread, long-lived straight-line windstorm that is associated with a fast-moving group of severe thunderstorms. (source: Wikipedia) We had driven thru some thunderstorms yesterday […]