Up your nose, Kala.

On Wednesday, the Dodge City Daily Globe ran a letter to the editor from one of our prize local cynics, Kala Bray. You can read it HERE if you are the type who like hearing how unimportant we are historically. In it, she observes that, (and I quote) "Dodge City is not a vacation or tourist destination".

Well, Kala, the Uvino's of Brooklyn, NY have just shoved that premise right up your nose. I had the pleasure of meeting the Uvino's the very same day your letter ran in the Dodge City Daily Globe leaving me to wonder where in the world you got your information? Certainly not from any form of reality known to the rest of us! While I agree wholeheartedly that we need to do something to revitalize and restore the Old Dodge City Historic District (You'll note that the Dodge City Trail of Fame is already working on this), our name and history is what still draws far more than a "drip" of tourists to Dodge City every year.

You really need to get out more, Kala! The Uvino family along with several of their New York friends just spent a WEEK in the Dodge City area doing the tourist thing and loving it. You can read about the great time they had, and their take on Dodge City as a vacation and tourist destination HERE! It was fun talking with these people who obviously were having a ball.

If our old west history is lost on anyone, it appears to be only you, Kala. Maybe if you went downtown into Historic Old Dodge City a little more often.... maybe if you actually talked to some of the 100,000 or so tourists who come here for western history every year.... maybe if you got out of the house a little more often... Naw. Silly me. You've already got your mind made up, haven't you?