Today finds me weekending in Topeka, Kansas, at the lovely Quality Inn, faking attention to a series of Important SEC football games on the tube. It's big-box and faux-authentic-regional-restaurant heaven at this exit, but the weather is warm and its walkable.

I hope to get to the Mulvane Art Museum tomorrow, forgoing the 1 pm game to get a look inside this university art center which, like many places I've been, I have only seen from the rear. I'll give you a report tomorrow.

Monday my partner and I head off a little further west, then its up to Minnesota. Let's hope the cold weather holds off while we breeze through the Great Lakes area next week.