Andrea Kaneko

1 month ago | missourilife.com | Mary Andino |Sydney Jones |Andrea Kaneko

To fully appreciate a familiar, well-trodden place, sometimes we need to look at it from a fresh perspective and see it from a new point of view. If you’ve visited and hiked Missouri’s beautiful state parks and conservation areas multiple times, discover them all over again from above. Climbing is your passport to a revived admiration of our region’s most inspiring landscapes.

Feb 13, 2025 | missourilife.com | Evan Wood |Andrea Kaneko |Sydney Jones

Last fall I got the chance to travel the full course of Route 66 from Chicago to Santa Monica with an old friend as he researched a piece he published in Rolling Stone. When he invited me along, he’d already been researching the route for months and had created a spreadsheet with every overnight stop and the distance between each. In general, the goal was to avoid chains as much as possible for dining while taking in some of the Mother Road’s most conspicuous attractions.

Nov 1, 2024 | missourilife.com | Sydney Jones |Andrea Kaneko |Kim Hill |Danita Allen Wood

Makers in Missouri bring natural products like dog treats, candles, and baby books. Charles and Kim Saso enjoyed homebrewing together and were looking for a use for the spent grains from their homebrewing sessions, and that is how The Crafted Bone was born. Dog bones are made with the grains left behind after the brewing process is complete.