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#Schummer14: Day 4-6 recap Summer of Schnyder
We don’t have full, unlimited access to the Internet while in Canada, so I decided to use that as a good excuse not to post for a couple of days! We had wifi at the condo in Toronto so I did take some time each night to post a few photos from the day on Instagram. While it’s nice to unplug sometimes, it’s amazing how many times during the day walking around a city I want to grab my phone and look up directions, the history of something, restaurant reviews, etc. Day 4 through Day 6 were spent in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. I’d visited the city (Canada’s largest city…
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Wichita, Kansas –> St. Louis, Missouri: a slow road trip
I’ve read a few articles and books lately that used the phrase ‘slow food movement’ – the idea of eating food that is locally grown versus fast foods of which you don’t know the origins. It’s a part of the larger ‘slow movement’ that is all about slowing down the pace of life. So here’s my attempt at extending that philosophy to the road trip. If I were practicing a slow road trip and following Wichita State University’s men’s basketball team to the Midwest Regional of the NCAA tournament in St. Louis this weekend, here are some places I might stop along the route. Please pass this along to anyone…
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Lee’s memories from 365 home Wichita State basketball games
Guest post by Lee UNDEFEATED. Who would have thought those would be the last words of the fans at the end of a Wichita State basketball season. I made it to 15 of the 17 home games this year and not many were close. The longtime Wichita State fan in me is used to nail-biters that have previously ended in a bad way. Earlier in the year the WSU athletic department highlighted a man who had been going to Shockers games for more than 50 years, and this got me curious about how many games I’ve been to in my life. I don’t fall into the category of the super…
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One of my favorite all-time Tigers: Corby Jones
Lee is a really good gift-giver (unlike some of my failures, like this bad move I made last year). He’s very generous when he’s gifting and he really likes the element of surprise. He pulled off a good one in December with a well-timed stop in Kansas City as we were driving to Columbia to see friends and family for Christmas. He told me we had a stop to make but I thought we were just dropping in at a store that had something he couldn’t find in Wichita, instead it was a stop to get an in-person autograph from Corby Jones. Corby was Missouri’s starting quarterback in 1997 and 1998…
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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…