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Christmas Lights Road Trip Through Southeast Kansas

Take your family on a road trip to experience the beautiful and magical, FREE light displays throughout Southeast Kansas. Some of these, likely in communities you've never heard of, are going to surprise you. Includes more than 20 displays featuring nearly 500,000 lights. There is a synched radio…

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One Tank Road Trips: Pittsburg State University

We’re still early in the fall semester, so you might still feel new to the city and surrounding area… Or you might even be entering your senior year and looking for new grounds to explore. The average gas tank is going to get you about 375 miles of driving around, so we’ll be looking at locations…

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7 Best-in-Class Weekends

Whether you’re connected to campus or just passing through, you’ll find plenty of spirit in these seven cities and towns. Lawrence The University of Kansas men’s basketball team owns one of the best home records in sports, thanks to the raucous atmosphere at Allen Fieldhouse that often unnerves…

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Intern Roadtrip

On Wednesday I drove an hour to Topeka from Manhattan, just as I had done every weekday for the majority of my summer. For 10 weeks I had the opportunity to intern with the Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism’s tourism division. When I pulled into the parking lot, I was met by the other…

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Hiking with Kids

On the last day of 2015, I headed to my favorite local hiking spot, Wilderness Park in Pittsburg, Kan., to get out on the trails with my husband and our two sons. It was the first sunny day in more than a week, there was no wind, and we were just itching to be outdoors. I’ve been a hiker since I was…

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