Dulles, Virginia, is a town. It is near the airport from which I assume it takes its name. It is not convenient to get there by train.

K.C. to Dulles Aiprot is about 2 hours 20 minutes flying time nonstop. Lose an hour flying east to IAD.

Dulles to NY La Guardia is only 1 hours 21 minutes flying time nonstop. Same time zone.

NY (I assume you mean NYC) to K.C. would be 4.5 to 5.5 hours making a connection somewhere. Gain an hour flying west to K.C.

Does your husband realize that the US is slightly larger than the UK ? You may as well just stay home, as all you are going to see are Airports.

Continental flies EWR-MCI non-stop about 6 times a day with regional jets. Midwest flies LGA-MCI non-stop about 3 times a day with Boeing 717 or larger regional jets. About 3 hours scheduled time.

USAirways and Midwest both have non-stops MCI-DCA, with about 3 flights each. United has about 3 non-stop MCI-IAD.

Kansas City is a fairly large metropolitan of 2 million people across two states. It has enough non-stop flights to the largest US cities. It's totally fine and okay to make your trip to visit family and friends. Even in the winter.

People make it like few people live there, or the place shuts down or disappear in the snow in Decemeber. In fact, chances are it's not that cold and you won't see much snow for Christmas.

For anyone who is interested,

The community derives its name from the airport; the airport in turn takes its name from former United States Secretary of State John Foster Dulles; and

The usage of Dulles as a community name began in the mid-1980s when Loudoun County economic development officer Pam Treadwell successfully lobbied[1] the United States Postal Service to allow Sterling businesses and residents to use Dulles as an alternate address. The USPS defines Dulles as an "acceptable" city name for the 20166 zip code, whose "actual" city name is Sterling,

there you go.

Just to correct from the poster above, it isn't 4-5 hours to KC from NY. I suppose it is if you make a connection, but direct flights are about 2.5-3 hours. Trust me, I've flown it often. And there are plenty of direct flights from both the NYC area and DC.

If you do decide to do it, KC at Christmas time, like many other cities, is quite pretty. The Country Club Plaza is well known for the Plaza lights, as an example. NYC is certainly in a class of its own, but it's not like you would be dumped in a huge industrial waste site if you made a visit to KC.

Toucan, Kansas City (mainly for the lights at the Plaza) has been on my short list of "places to visit at Christmas" for quite a while. The only problem is my short list isn't so short and we seldom seem to travel at Christmas anyway. But someday. . .

If you do make it here at Christmas time someday Patrick, we'll have to meet you both for dinner. They have good barbecue around here you know(: