Stanton, United States

     Our first big stop of the day was in Stanton, Missouri at the Meramec caverns. Much like our campsite, it was virtually empty. Apparently, Jesse James and his gang used these caves numerous times to keep from being captured. They ...

  We ended up not going to Hannibal, boyhood home of Mark Twain and "America's Home  Town", yesterday, when we realized it was a two and a half hour drive, and at this time of year many of the attractions have limited weekend-only hours.& ...

We'd spent a fair amount of the morning traveling across Indiana and Illinois -- two flat and endless fields of corn and soybeans -- most of the day at the Arch in St. Louis, and the rest of the afternoon hopelessly lost and trying to find and follow ...

I am a sucker for a lot of things, most of them connected to women. A pretty smile, a nice pair of legs, a bottle of bourbon. I'm also a sucker for a good cave tour, or even a bad cave tour, and if you want to read some horrifying Freudian meaning into ...