We visited Kansas City and drove around the city one day to get a feel for it.  It’s a unique city in that the state line is pretty much right through the city.

It’s a fairly large city, with a baseball and a football stadium right next to each other at the east side of town right next to the freeway.  On our way out of the city a baseball game was about to start and we could see how full the stadium was getting.

We found a park to stop at right on the river and without realizing it we found a historic place.  Kaw Point Park is right at the confluence of the Kansas and Missouri Rivers and it’s where Lewis and Clark stayed for a few days to resupply and repair.  It sure wasn’t easy to find though, we had to drive through a parking lot for a big manufacturing plant, then make a sharp turn onto a levee and drive along a narrow dirt road on top of the levee to get to the park.  I don’t know why they ‘hid’ the park so well!

Here are some pictures we took at Kaw Point Park below.  You can click on the panorama picture in order to see it in more detail.  And, sorry about the shaded areas on the artist rendering, couldn’t adjust where the sun was!