Home again

Some people I know have frequent work trips to places like New York, London, etc. I, on the other hand, have had the good fortune of taking two trips in the past several months to...Kansas City! How I got so lucky, I'm not really sure. (I've also been to Philadelphia twice this summer, and have a second trip to Mexico City coming up--it's not like I travel that much any more, so a little variety would be nice.) It's not like Kansas City is a bad place or anything, and it seems to have some potential, but it's not really walkable, which is a big strike against it from a visitor's perspective. To quote a famous fictional Kansas denizen, there's no place like home...