I had a work trip to Kansas City last week and opted to fly in early to check out the area over Easter weekend. I spent Saturday afternoon exploring Lawrence and the University of Kansas campus. While Kansas isn’t high on my list of places to live, I enjoyed my time in Lawrence and unsurprisingly found it to be a seemingly nice place to live (as big university towns often are).
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17. The Douglas County Courthouse was a beauty!
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20. Heading up the hill to the KU campus.
21. Arriving on the KU campus which had some impressive old buildings with beautiful stone or brick architecture.
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47. I’m not sure what my thoughts were on this building as I headed out of campus. It’s a hotel and because of its architecture and height it really sticks out. Which isn’t necessarily a bad thing but something about it didn’t seem overly cohesive, yet I took multiple photos and kept staring at it up close and from far away.
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50. Checking out the residential neighborhood, “Old West Lawrence,” which is in between the campus to the southwest and downtown to the northeast.
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68. A nice park separates the residential area and downtown.
69. Making my way to check out the Kansas River and riverfront trail.
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88. This place looked popular for ice cream so I had to try it out.
89. It was pretty good. Nice dense creamy ice cream.
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And that’s all from Lawrence. At some point in the next week or two I hope to add a much larger Kansas City post.
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