Who's making the drive for the game tomorrow?
 

Some buddies and I have spontaneously bought 4 tickets for section 310 due to the prices being more affordable for us college students (the weather does have its perks)... We are making the trip down from Cedar Falls, IA and I'm a little bit curious if anyone else on here is making a 4-5 hour trip to the game. If so what time ya'll departing and where from? I am nervous about the drive down due to the weather KC is and will be experiencing but this will be my 2nd trip like this as I was in attendance for the Chiefs/Steelers divisional game when there was worry about ice and road conditions. So just curious who else in braving the drive down (or up)!!

i for one won't be making the drive :cuss: :D

I've always wanted to visit Cedar Falls, they have what appears to be a pretty nice bike trail system.

If you rent an aircraft carrier, you could drive the entire way. In circles of course.

It's a great a community as long as you don't venture over to Waterloo. I don't do much biking but I fish quite a bit and have noticed plenty of bike trails around the ponds and the lake in town. Seems to be some hot trails as I always see cyclists on them.

Trump hasn't demanded for a bridge to be built between Aus and the US yet?? :cuss:

What's wrong with Waterloo? I mean it's in Iowa...how bad can it be?

You're from Iowa, it should be a piece of cake.

Lol! I mean its probably not THAT bad but its the local stereotype that Waterloo is the more scummy/dirty of the two communities. Also their roads are terrible and don't get much care.

The Expert Driver title comes standard issue with the drivers license!

Edit: I was always curious if the KC area and surrounding areas overreact with snow storms due to the fact they probably don't accumulate much snow compared to up here. Reading some of the KC area reports or warnings make it sound pretty serious.

Be safe man

A warning: the roads are very very nasty right now. I'm sure they will be better by morning but I'm guessing there will be some degree of freezing overnight.

Be careful.

Absolutely nothing. It’s just what UNI students who have never gone to Waterloo say.

That's funny. And I'm from Iowa and never been to waterloo. And never want to honestly.

Thanks for the heads up, Clay! Yeah we will make sure to proceed with caution in the morning and make it down safe.

gonna drive 2 hours but not going to take my normal route since it goes up a twisty county highway, going to go farther down 50 and come north closer to KC

based on the amount of snow coming down right now I bet a few people will be making a 4-5 hour drive in tomorrow

Also, Simplicity, do be careful. Not sure how far north the storm is going but some of my worst drives have been during the winter on Highway 20.

They do have Chic-fil-a which is definitely worth the drive over!

It’s nothing special, don’t get me wrong, but it’s not this super dangerous shithole like Cedar Falls residents make it out to be.

I’m leaving Wichita at 5:30 in the morning.

Old or new 20?

I would assume new? 4 lanes. I only went from Waterloo to I35.

So, basically, like every other town in Iowa

yup. lots of flat there!!!!!

Currently on the road to KC from Austin Texas.

It's the hills that get ya

Drive safe

even though some of it has been around for a long time, it is still new 20

No hills until Correctionville. (going west)

You know my backyard

Lytton is home.

Not really. The whole drive is flat which gets a lot of snow blowing across the roads and creates the slick spots.

Wowsa

I'm shocked that people know that Correctionville exists. 007 and I stopped there on our Iowa barnstorming tour this summer.



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Well, I do live here. So, like, looking at barns?

After consulting a map I see it is pretty close to Sioux City. We got there via LeMars and Cherokee so it seemed like a long way away.

Not so much looking at barns but I'm sure we saw a few. Mostly hitting up bike trails and chasing down Freedom Rocks, and whatever we found in between.


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Got ya. Had a barn story if that was your thing.

Le Mars, did you hit up Bob's for hot dogs?

Not sure what a freedom rock is, but if it is in memoriam, check out brunsville sometime. On memorial day if possible.

Edit - didn't really need to see your crotch

Hey my junk stayed put! You live in Iowa and you don't know what a Freedom Rock is? Nearly every county has one somewhere.



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Oh, and we had ice cream at the Blue Bunny museum in LeMars. Didn't have lunch until we got to Cherokee.



I'm bored so regale me with your barn story.

OK, yes I do know what they are. Yes, that's cool and cool you guys did it! :thumb:

Not really much of a story, but a gal we knew in Wynot, NE made a calendar of pictures of barns around the northeast Nebraska area. Extremely cool. Pictures were outstanding. Unfortunately she passed away like a year later. She was young too.

If you ever make it up this way again, drop a line!

Ughh - I hate hearing it's that bad.

We drove through NE Nebraska after we left Yankton and I was blown away with how nice that area was so I imagine she had some impressive pictures. We're planning on moving to Wyoming sometime this year but I do still want to get up that way before I leave. I'll definitely holler if I do.

Very sweet of you. (At this moment) you seem nice.

Damn. :( Hopefully to retire! Hell, we've been somewhat close to getting together before, maybe we can do it before you go.

Northeast Nebraska is a beautiful area. About as hometown as hometown you can get. Made some GREAT friends over there through the years.

On a serious note, best wishes to everyone in their travels tomorrow. Stay safe so you can raise some hell tomorrow... Go Chiefs!

Lol I wish I was retiring. Been here all my life and it's grown stale so we want to change things up. A lot as to fall in place for it to happen so it could be a while. I'll catch up to ya!

Cool man. WY would be cool, I think.

Been in this shithole all my life, but can't imagine living anywhere else. So what do I know.

I toured the Deere factory in Waterloo. That’s not something you find just anywhere.

I’m sure it got a bad rap when Deere employed thousands of industrial type jobs. Now it’s all robots, software dorks and engineers.

Reverend!

You a green guy? Always envisioned you as a red guy.

No, it gets its reputation from the disproportionate (for Iowa at least) amount of black people who live there.

do they uber pacific ocean rides yet? asking for a friend. :D

Get over here, hop skip jump whatever it takes. Jetpack?

Are you on the road yet?

I know enough about farming to know what that means. :D Our farmer plays both sides of the fence and works it pretty well.

My Dad was strictly red/orange, no green.

Waterloo is a town in Belgium. Napoleon lost the battle of Waterloo.

My grandfather owned one of the most successful John Deere dealerships in the state of KS and I manage a Case/New Holland factory. He’d roll over in his grave if he knew that.

It's also the name of the water park in Bill &Teds excellent adventure

They take it pretty darn serious and I bet you are right about your grandpa.

My Dad's first love was farming even though he made his living differently.

The farmer that leases our ground takes advantage of it, pretty smart. All the dealers bust their butts to get his business, no matter the color because they know he is not tied to one color.

,is this a tractor gangsta thing?

Road conditions SUCKED last night.

Be safe today.

Oh yes, not just tractors but combines and implements as well..

Checking out snap chats road conditions look rough to say the least be careful

Getting ready to walk out the door... I hope I35 isn't too bad. Go Chiefs!

Drive safe, man.

Might check out the MoDOT app. All roads are covered still

Long time no see, Simplicity! Hope all is well, be safe and raise hell out there today.

Be safe everyone.

I'm in mid mo and had the camaro out this morning playing.

It's not that bad out here. But we only got like 6 inches

looks like roads are wet around KC.


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Thought I’d check in! Just made it back to my bed here in Cedar Falls safely (and soundly if you care). I-35 was for the most part manageable on the way down and only really encountered troubles just getting into MO.... It was gross. Got stuck in traffic in KC due to a stuck semi but made it to our seats just in time for the introductions and man it was good to be there tonight! By far the most fun I’ve had at Arrowhead to date and it was a blast to share these memories with my friends and the rest of ya’ll that were packed in that stadium tonight! Most of you will be glad to hear we did not partake in any snowball throwing but we did however have a few good laughs of people getting domed on the Colts sideline and immediately turn around and point up like they thought they could pick out the individual who threw it.

Just saw this but good to see your post!! All is definitely well now that today happened! Not sure if I’ll be able to sleep lol