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Missouri, football, SEC championship, bowl game — all in the same sentence!
Photo courtesy of Mizzou Alumni Association Guest post by Lee One thing I never thought I would be doing: trying to determine the best way to reach a Mizzou bowl game. This would be quite a crowning achievement at the Schnyder household for our sports teams. Wichita State’s basketball team made it to the Final Four earlier this year and the Shockers are currently ranked No. 10 in the country. Missouri’s football team has jumped from bottom-feeder of the Southeast Conference to being one win away from playing for the national championship (sorry, Florida State you don’t play for a championship when you have had a felon as your starting…
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LEVIA: my travel agent and navigation system
Here’s another guest post from Lee. I swear I didn’t pay him to write this! For most trips that we take as a couple, I contribute a good amount of time in planning, picking kosher hotels and booking the flights. If it’s a sports trip then I’m also in charge of picking the venues and getting those tickets. This last trip the only thing I did was get the plane tickets based on the dates provided from MeLinda. I knew where we were going but the details beyond that were pretty unknown to me. MeLinda did put together an impressive agenda but I only took a quick look. So I…
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BACON WHORE! BACON WHORE? BACON WHORE.
BACON WHORE! No matter how I phrase it, I don’t think it is a compliment. For those of you who don’t know my eating habits I don’t eat too many different things for breakfast and most of them have a bagel in the equation. So today for breakfast I went to the fridge, grabbed my milk, a bagel from the freezer and took the last two pieces of turkey bacon in the fridge. I don’t have the time to cook the bacon on the stove but it tastes good enough cooked in the microwave. So after about a minute and a half I have the perfect breakfast: a bacon bagel sandwich…
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Trip rant: LUV bites
Here is Lee’s rant after flying on Southwest (which is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol LUV) for the first time since the airline took over AirTran service at our home airport in Wichita, Kan. You know the friend we all have who always says he will be there to pick you up at a certain time and it never fails: you get the ride but you are always late? Well my new friend who just moved into the neighborhood, Southwest Airlines, has become that guy. Yes, Southwest Airlines drives a little more expensive vehicle than my friend’s Ford Festiva but the concept is the…
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2013 Final Four: lessons learned on buying tickets for big games
This is the second of a two-part guest post from Lee about our amazing road trip to follow one of our favorite teams to the NCAA Championship … something neither of us were sure would happen in our lifetime! Read his first post if you missed it. ~~~~ Yes, I was disappointed when Wichita State lost to Louisville in the 2013 NCAA national championship semifinal but the ride had been more than I ever expected. Five months of all the ups and downs with the Shockers can be frustrating but when they made it to the Final Four I had to go. When your team finally makes it to a…