Star columnist C.W. Guswelle has mind blown by Google Maps, mails in another column

Back in July, Kansas City Star columnist C.W. Gusewelle filed the first of several dispatches from Russia. Like the ones to come, it was an impenetrable fortress of storytelling, the only flash of clarity coming in the column’s final sentence, when Gusewelle revealed that he would be reporting from Russia — for the local section — through late August.

Summer came and went. As Kansas City’s East Side bled through another murderous summer, and election season left its biennial rash on the city’s soul, story after story arrived from 5,000 miles away. Finally, in October, the unfamiliar datelines disappeared. But just because Gusewelle is back from Europe doesn’t mean the end of his vacation diary.