Seg. 1: Foreign Service | Seg. 2: Slow Travel

KCUR | By Gina Kaufmann,

Melody Rowell

Published November 25, 2019 at 12:22 PM CST

Segment 1: What aspiring Foreign Service Officers from Kansas City are taking away from the impeachment hearings.

Recent congressional hearings have put Foreign Service Officers in the spotlight. How do their jobs now look to those hoping to one day be like them?

Mia Richardson, volunteer, Peace Corps in North Macedonia
Jack Still, junior, William Jewell College

Segment 2, beginning at 34:48: When your bike is also your traveling companion.

A local biker, who documents her solo bike trips on Instagram, recently won a train trip from Amtrak to take her bike with her to West Virginia.

Kim Horgan, local biker and instagrammer, Kansas City

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Gina Kaufmann

Gina’s background combines print and broadcast journalism, live event hosting and production, creative nonfiction writing and involvement in the arts. Early in her career, she followed a cultural beat for The Pitch, where she served as an editor and art writer in the early 2000s.

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Melody Rowell