We rolled out about 3 pm EST. We ended up traveling 371 miles for the day. As i mentioned before it was pretty smooth sailing until we approached St Louis from the east. Traffic just stopped, most of the time going 0 MPH (which doesn’t get you much anywhere). According to the GPS markers i put down (yes, I’m that dorky) we stopped at 6:18 and finally got out of it at 7:47, traveling about 4.3 miles between those times. This was our first glimpse of the arch, just a bit before we hit traffic:
Once we got close to the Mississippi we saw an exit for another bridge across (the MLK bridge) so we took that. We figured we could navigate to the diner we were headed to for dinner. Here’s that sweet non-crowded bridge and a shot up the Mississippi (looking North):
As we got across, we had to travel north a bit before we could go south and Sarah took this picture of the arch that she thought turned out pretty good:
Once we got turned around we drove thru downtown St Louis (which wasn’t crowded at all) towards our food destination. We weren’t expecting this at all but we drove by a huge brewery:
With this little guy guarding the corner (or maybe he was just drunk):
A couple minutes later we made it to the Shangri La Diner where we had scoped out Sarah compatible food. She was especially interested in the Vegan Pulled Pork Sandwich. We’ll have a review of the diner in a later post!
Got to go! Time to head out for Day 1 which will take use from central Missouri, thru Tulsa and Oklahoma City, to almost the Texas border.
