The Athens of Missouri

Enjoy some photographs from a recent hike just outside of town:

Since my recent relocation from Kansas City, MO to Columbia, MO I've been reflecting on life in a smaller, college town in America. The immediate benefits that I have enjoyed are the many nature hiking opportunities and the ways that locally owned businesses still thrive on the basis of maintaining a good reputation. Of course, the dramatically lower crime rate is not a minor factor: one that increases one's senses of mobility and liberation.