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Visiting St. Louis

A travel blog entry by jencape

... we'll see... ;) I would have loved more time for us to spend in the Museum of Westward Expansion (which we visited after doing the tram ride to the top to take pictures), but we needed to move on to get to Kansas City at a reasonable time (and do our best to avoid rush hour). My favorite quote (as Amber had just watched a replica of an old-time silversmith talk to us) was "That was ...

WE GONE

A travel blog entry by ronber

Hey, we're on the road again. We finally got things in good enough shape to leave on
schedule on 10/14. We had a great visit with our friends, Phil & Doris Crain, in Cabot, AR.
We played Sticks Rummy every evening.s

We left there this morning and are now camped just south of Memphis in a very nice
campground, EZ DAZE RV Park. It was a short day on the road but tiring due to the wind,
not quite as bad as the day we left home but it still made ...

Trip up the St. Louis Arch

A travel blog entry by bldiederich

... took our 2-3 min ride to the top and got out.
At the top Mel was able to get some really neat pictures of St. Louis with the arch's shadow over it. After about 10 min Mel was ready to go down, because at the top of the 630 foot high arch on a windy day it kind of feels like be on a small boat on a choppy lake. The difference is of coarse in this scenario you can see that you have 630 feet to fall. So we came down in car 1. This time ...

Mini vacation!

A travel blog entry by jonanddes

... excitedly "There's a wedding reception across the street!" We could see on the top floor there was a wedding reception going on. I had been hearing the dj! We watched the bride and groom have their first dance. :) On Sunday we visited Kemp Auto Museum in Chesterfield. It had rare european cars and I had planned this for Jonathan. The muesum was small so we were done pretty early and didn't want to go to our hotel. We did some shopping and as we came ...

Last Chance to see the "Artz Tour de France" Art

A travel blog entry by sugarbaker

... during November and December
at the Art on the Square Gallery
30 Public Square
Belleville, IL
Meet the Artists' Reception
during the Downtown Belleville Art and Wine Walk
Saturday, November 20, 2010
5 – 9 p.m.
Jerie Artz, Loris Butterfield, Arvilla Friar, Suzanne Lowry, Beth Meier,
Tatyana Robberts, Susan Rogers, Larry Seibold, Carol Seibold, Debra Townsend

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