A two-year-delayed speaking engagement to give the opening keynote at Wanderful’s Women in Travel Summit finally got me to this often overlooked city in the heart of the midwestern prairie. It is open, arty, inviting, and full of surprises. There’s only so much you can do while conferencing, but what I did experience was refreshing. Let’s go! But before we do, let’s clarify something which gets many visitors confused. Is Kansas City in Kansas or Missouri? It’s both. Kansas City, Kansas, and Kansas City, Missouri, are two separately incorporated cities but together, along with several other cities and suburbs, are part of the greater Kansas City metropolitan area. I spent most of my time on the Missouri side, with a detour over the state border.