Friday, July 29, 2011

Thursday 28 July 2011 -- Daytrip to Lansing and Leavenworth with Ken, ate at Homer's Drive Inn

- 2011/07/28 Thursday 00:26:17 homo
- 2011/07/28 Thursday 03:21:06 blogged then bed
- 2011/07/28 Thursday 09:28:23 up
- 2011/07/28 Thursday 09:44:29 heading out
- 2011/07/28 Thursday 10:15:50 Plahzuh crapple store
- 2011/07/28 Thursday 11:02:34 3 dogs bakery got Tima a harness
- 2011/07/28 Thursday 11:39:32 heading to the Sprint store
- 2011/07/28 Thursday 11:49:43 sprint store 36th and Broadway
- 2011/07/28 Thursday 12:27:12 heading homo
- 2011/07/28 Thursday 12:47:06 homo
- 2011/07/28 Thursday 14:28:12 2 s'
- 2011/07/28 Thursday 14:53:17 heading oit
- 2011/07/28 Thursday 15:15:32 ZYJ's
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- 2011/07/28 Thursday 17:43:37 Lansing
- 2011/07/28 Thursday 18:10:38 Homers
- 2011/07/28 Thursday 18:19:07 We are at Homer's Drive Inn in Leavenworth, Kansas. I have been wanting to come here ever since I have driven by here on my trips through. Working has forced me to do fast food or nothing. This place has a fast drive in out front where the wait staff car hops out to you -- old school with no scratchy assed intercom that could not be heard, much less understood. You can almost picture the wait staff hopping the running boards of model A Fords. Homer's Drive Inn was started in 1931 by Homer McKelvey when he opened a root beer stand. The present store in the place it sits now opened in 1938. From 1946 to 1988, Homer's son D.H., also known as Mac operated the place. The place was sold in '88, and is now owned by Rick Jackson. Homer's is authentic, with a remodeling that occurred in 1962. Mid-century modern lovers will enjoy the elements that were added in the 60's. - 2011/07/28 Thursday 19:28:50 Leaving Homer's
- 2011/07/28 Thursday 19:34:58 severe thunderstorm warning over Jackson and Cass counties

- 2011/07/28 Thursday 19:41:35 downtown Leaveneorth
- 2011/07/28 Thursday 21:37:06 leaving downtown
- 2011/07/28 Thursday 22:35:53 YJ's
- 2011/07/28 Thursday 23:17:16 K--all we found that waa intersting was Homers. Ss-- yeah ive been meaning to go to Homers dor a long time. K-- the atmospher was interesting the pie was good thw resr was acceptable. Some day were gonna have totake 40 highway to 291 and take 24 back. You know Fort Scott is a lot like Leacenworh. There is the military attitude, tgere are antique stores downtown or it is empty. Ss-- I'ce been through Fort Scott but Ive never stopped. K-- My daughter Darlene lived there for the better part of a year. She pixked up her sof drom the pound there. You know in the small towns it us cgeaper to get an animal from the pound. All she had to pay for was the ahots. SS -- I dont know if I should let people know you can get cheap poind animals in small towns. K-- They may have chnged their prices since then. They got that thing there many years ago and my grandughter Claudia, after they got that dog, man that was her dog, and if you did anything to Claudia you were in trouble.
- 2011/07/28 Thursday 23:31:00 SS-- So we went back to Leavenworth. We wwre ther backin aprilmay? K-- I couldnt tellyou. Tgey all start to run together after awhile. SS-- My sister is complainibg tgat all we do ia take pictures of old buildings. K-- Yeah. I dont take too many. I like to see how the old buildings are made and how they've changed. I will take pictures of something that is unique.
- 2011/07/28 Thursday 23:36:24 SS -- So what would you say that we found was unique today. I would say that before this week i didn't know about that pretty drive to lansing. K-- Well I saw the lattice wall at Homers that I think was made of chimney block, the palm tree, the dead tree, the water fountain at the DQ, the water over the road, the women's prison and the speeder -- we used to call those track vehicles speeders. You know, when the weather gets nice well have to leave earlier.
- 2011/07/28 Thursday 23:43:55 K-- When we go to Joplin we are going to have to do differently than everyone else and do something other than tornado stuff. SS -- My response is that I was thinking that before the tornado I wanted to see the Joplin that alway was. You know -- the downtown, route 66 -- stuff likr that.
- 2011/07/28 Thursday 23:50:23 SS-- So what catchy title should I use for taday. K-- lets all go to the slammer? Did we get pictures of the jail. Ss-- I did with my dashcam but i was nervous. K-- It is funny but we were scared to take pictures, but a terrorist could get more off google earth. S-- I wanted to get pictures but I did not want to get out of the car so I just usrd the dashcam. That reminds me to about that Leaveneorth police officer who kept driving past us slow. K-- Yeah he mustve driven past us 9 or 10 times. I think it was intersting that both the VFW and the American Legion were shut down by 9. I think though we would see more of the character of a town if we get there early enough to see people.
- 2011/07/28 Thursday 23:59:14 Ss-- I didn't get that mural. Sherman lived there and practiced law there. K-- theres a a lot of lawyers who turned into teal scoundrels.
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- 2011/07/29 Friday 01:44:33 heading homo
- 2011/07/29 Friday 02:07:18 homo

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