Wednesday, July 15, 2009. The first day our barhopping trip that we had been planning for almost a year in celebration of B’s graduation. (Plus, we never really took any long trips in 2008 and they have become kind of a tradition.)
We hit the highway at 8am on a drizzly Wednesday morning, heading north on I-29 towards Lincoln, Nebraska.
Our first stop was in the town of Dearborn, MO (pop 529) where we prepped our systems with breakfast at…
Cook’s Corner Cafe
214 Main St
Dearborn, MO 64439-9212
(816) 450-3600
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Once our bellies had a nice …

We got back into Kansas City last night after our longest pub crawl yet.
It’s going to take me a few days to sort through all the pictures and notes and get the full stories posted, but in the meantime here’s a few numbers to tide you over:
Number of cities/towns we stopped at bars in:  37
Number of bars visited: 101
Number of other bars we would have visited except they were closed when we got there:  17
Number of those closed bars that should have been open based open either the hours posted on the …

This was a bonus bar for us as it never turned up in any of our research, and it was a good find.   The bar dates back to the 1800s and has always been called The Bullet Hole.   The actual bar inside is still the original and is in excellent condition.

Power and Light District bars could take a lesson from these drink prices…

We found this gem in the middle of nowhere a few miles S-SW of Nebraska City and encountered a dude with chest hair all the way down his neck who told us tales of the 14 weeks he spent hauling bagels from Nebraska to Cold Storage in KCMO.

It’s just after 10am, and I’m sitting at a bar called Quackers in Mound City, MO enjoying the first beer of the trip.
The actual bar is very small, seating only three, but there is a good amount of table seating.
The fact that we got here right after 10am bodes well for meeting our schedule for today.

It’s been a while since I’ve been on a good barhopping trip and a year or so sincee I’ve made a weekend of it.    But it’s been 3 years since I’ve been on such a trip spanning several days.   I’ve beeen working hard, I deserve it, it’s time for a barcation!
First thing Wednesday morning I’ll be hitting the open road with my cohort, heading to Nebraska to tour the rural and not so rural bars of the state in search of cold beer and interesting people and hangouts.