Kansas City, MO

My alarm was set for 6am but I work up naturally at 5.20am again (how weird!). I left at 8.15am for the six hour drive to Kansas City. Surprisingly the journey went very quickly for me. I stopped at a Denny’s for a late breakfast at about 11.30am.

A lot of my drive was along the historic Route 66:

I reached Kansas City at about 2pm. I was going to stop off in a town called Independence where President Harry Truman lived but the house was closed for renovation. I drove into the city and easily found the venue where Kasim is playing tonight.

Kansas City skyline:

I’m staying out at the airport which is to the west of Kansas City so that’s added about an extra 20 miles to my journey! I spent the rest of the afternoon doing some work in my room and left at about 6.30pm.



I got to the venue far too early so I sat outside for about half an hour. It was quite a busy place but when I went in, I really struggled to find where Kasim was playing. As I wrote in my review, thankfully I met someone who I had corresponded with via email who showed me where he was playing.

Kasim played a great gig but it’s a shame there was so few people there, especially as it was also for a charity as I doubt that they took much either.

As there were so few people there I stayed around for a while afterwards but still managed to get back to my room by 11pm. I went straight to sleep as tomorrow will be a very long day ….but fun!