http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Missouri/St--Louis/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from North America , United States , Missouri , St Louis en-us Fri, 05 Dec 2008 00:53:18 UTC Fri, 05 Dec 2008 00:53:18 UTC After a sizeabowl helping of Lucky Charms and a half cup of coffee this morning we were off to do some training. Mags Mo and Justin went for a 4 hour road bike session and I hit the trails at Castlewood for a 3 hour mountain bike with a topotheline demo Gary Fisher. It was everything a 3000 bike should have been Afterwards we hit up a 60 minute trail run that just about killed me. It' http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/Missouri/St--Louis/blog-343364.html After a night layover in Columbia YES I wore my blue KU jacket everywhere I am finally in St. Louis. Had a fun day hangin out with Maggie and doing a little shopping and running. I got a sweet running jacket that I've wanted for several months and wore it on the trail run. We ran a 9.3 mile loop at Castlewood State Park in 61 minutes so it was a decent workout. Dinner and a coffee later I'm http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/Missouri/St--Louis/blog-343116.html Sometimes going home can be an experience. I'm just writing an update at the moment. I visited home since writing last. I got an email from Travelblog yesterday or the day before saying it has been 175 days since I last visited this site. I have since become more interested in blogging at blogspot.com. And honestly I haven't done any real travelling since I blogged last. One of my cousins took an http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/Missouri/St--Louis/blog-339463.html I will bet you are saying St Louis Why would anyone ever go there Well it was business that took me there but it is the food that would bring me back. I worked for a division of American Express for several years. We were based in St. Louis not far from Lambert Field the main airport. I got to know the backroads as well as the best food in this often overlooked city. It is easy to over http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/Missouri/St--Louis/blog-337168.html Suggested Listening for this Entry Star Star and It's Only Rock and Roll by the Rolling Stones. East Bound and Down aka the theme from Smokey and the Bandit by Jerry Reed...read on to find out why that one is included.Suggested Food and Drink for this Entry Beer beer and more beer in tall boy cans.A couple of blocks away from Busch Stadium there is an area with a few bars with patios http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/Missouri/St--Louis/blog-332425.html Suggested Listening for this Entry Anything by St. Louis native son Chuck BerrySuggested Foor and Drink for this Entry A grilled sausage of your choosing Italian Brat Polish on a bun and a Budweiser because you won't find any Miller products at Busch Stadium.After the previous evening's scares of nonstarting jet engines and the Hampton InnUnion Station in St. Louis not having the room I http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/Missouri/St--Louis/blog-332399.html Thrifty Travel Tip 2 Talk to the locals you might find a nice place to stay or at least the best place in town to grab a good meal.Thrifty Travel Tip 3 Shop at the grocery stores and eat in the car.Hello again this time from St. Louis MOWe left oxford pretty early but didn't make it very far but for good reason. We had a good start when we woke up early at Tom's around 9 AM. Dustin and http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/Missouri/St--Louis/blog-327952.html Today we toured around Saint Louis. We went to the top of the Arch after viewing a video about how they built this 640 ft. tall structure. The construction workers would walk around the top with out any ropes crazy. We walked down to the Missippippi and had lunch at the Landing. In the afternoon we made it over to the AnheuserBusch Brewery and watched how they make Bud.0 miles traveled. http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/Missouri/St--Louis/blog-323156.html Our trip across Missouri started out with a stop at the Harry S. Truman Museum in Independence. This was a good history lesson about the end of WWII and the start of the Cold War. From there we stopped for Lunch in Columbia. Seemed to be a cool college town with a nice village. After that It was off to St. Louis Gateway to the West. We arrived at our hotel and hurried to get ready for the Ca http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/Missouri/St--Louis/blog-323153.html We've come to our final destination. The USofA for Carly Paul's wedding. Chi Town Arriving in Chicago it was nice to be met by someone at the airport and someone who could talk to us and we could understand my dad. So good to see the family again and also some of Phuong's family too. My little nephew who's almost one has learnt to do kisses D well he leans in and you get a bit o http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/Missouri/St--Louis/blog-318641.html In the morning we drove to Missouri and it was very foggy outside When we got to Branson we decided to keep driving until we got to St. Louis which was 212 miles away at that point. St Louis took about 4 hours to get to but it was worth it We walked around the downtown area and saw lots of buildings and the baseball park. We went to the Gateway Arch and took the ride up to the top. Thatrsq http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/Missouri/St--Louis/blog-317432.html Tim and I love to play tour guide in our new city. So Ken and Fey are perfect victims.... HA. Ken has spent enough time roaming the midwest. Frankly in my opinion there is only so much any one person can tolerant from the midwest..... Hey I'm a midwestern by birth so I can make such a statement..... and you know it's true. But we make the best of it. We show the kids the Gateway Arch a mus http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/Missouri/St--Louis/blog-317390.html Days Three Four and Five The SicknessThis may be the worldrsquos first travel blog in which there is no traveling. We remain in St. Louis. After her victorious tour of the Gateway Arch Jessica was struck down by a bacterial infection. To be precise Jessica has simply lost the latest round of our ongoing game of bacterial brinkmanship. Let me explain. About a month ago I was swimming http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/Missouri/St--Louis/blog-312580.html Well... Here I am in Tower Grove South St. Louis running my own business and bartending here httpwww.citymuseum.org. I've had a fairly eventful year of traveling within the United States. I lost someone very dear to me last summer. He died tragically in a motorcycle accident at age 27 in the mountains of Italy. I just haven't been the same since this happened. It reminded me that life is sh http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/Missouri/St--Louis/blog-312298.html Day Two On the Shoulders of GiantsAs you may or may not know in May of 1904 two Floridian furtrappers by the names of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark set out from St. Louis MO on an historic crosscountry journey to the Pacific Ocean. President Teddy Roosevelt had just pushed the New Deal through Congress and he was ready to gather information on the vast territory of the Louisiana Purcha http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/Missouri/St--Louis/blog-312144.html I arrived home last Thursday after many days of traveling a fun stop in London and lots of boredom in airplanes and airports. It's been great to be home and catch up with some family and friends I do miss the adorable African kids but I think after being sick and everything the last couple weeks it was really nice to get home. I hope to go back one day though to visit the kids and see other A http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/Missouri/St--Louis/blog-308675.html As a quasi grad school graduation gift to Axel Laurie decided to take him for an exciting day in St. Louis. We started the day by strolling through some of the cute downtown neighborhood and checking out the flooding situation near the Arch. Because of the massive amount of rain and flooding the parking area on the levy by the St. Louis arch was completely under water. It really brought home http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/Missouri/St--Louis/Saint-Louis-University/blog-307195.html The drive from Colorado through Kansas to St. Louis Missouri was better than we expected...a bit boring but not as boring as driving down I5 in California. Kansas was very green and the corn fields are actually quite beautiful. We made a little stop in Topeka KS at a the Brown Vs. The Board of Education historic site. It was very interesting and sort of gave us a feel for what the south felt li http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/Missouri/St--Louis/blog-303210.html The Tentative Plan of Where I'll be and When ... So You Can Come Visit August 15th Going Away Bar Crawl Belleville ILAugust 18th Flight to AMSTERDAM August 19th Octobe 17th LEIDEN Neatherlands October 18th 26th Fall BreakOcover 27th Dec 19th LONDON EnglandDecember 22 Flight to http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/Missouri/St--Louis/blog-302555.html First destination....St. Louis and the arch. The Arch was massive...a lot larger than expected. Our motel isn't the best but it will do for a good nights sleep before we hit the road again tomorrow...for another 11 hours. http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/Missouri/St--Louis/blog-302538.html Greetings from STL. We decided it would be pretty neat to see some fireworks over the Gateway Arch in St. Louis just once. Hey when in Rome..... We never managed to make it down to the fireworks over the DC Mall over the WA monument something I miss but always too crowded HOT and stormy. So no regrets in St. Louis. The night was very pleasant low 80s to high 70s and a nice breeze. I guess http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/Missouri/St--Louis/blog-301560.html WEIS 659 June 28thRoss has been Marioing forever. He seems very into it. He keeps signing and talking about coinsMissourirsquos only city is St Louis based on the pathetic excuses for exits wersquove passed.Tulsa is ldquoGreen Countryrdquo supposedly. On AAArsquos preview page Native American powwows and a 72 foot tall oiler statue are pictured. They say nothing of what to do if you http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/Missouri/St--Louis/blog-294714.html Abby 603 June 28thWeis is still driving. We almost went on the wrong road after getting gas from a pump that had ross stumped for a few good minutes. We passed Cuba about 5 minutes ago and now Weis is playing MMJ covering the Who from bonnaroo 2 years ago.Ross and Weis are scared of my Dadrsquos salsa because itrsquos been through rough times in the car but I think it will be fine and I plan http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/Missouri/St--Louis/blog-294709.html mmmm....soo i'm a little late on starting this but i'll update everything for everyone soonToday is hot. Not as Hot as Pheonix but its hot. luckily we're next to our good friends at Katy Perry Forever The Sickest Kids and across from Midnight To Twelve and The Maine. They help keep the heat off our minds. Yesturday was our day off but it wasn't really much of a day off we had to drive the Wh http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/Missouri/St--Louis/blog-294121.html Branson MO http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/Missouri/St--Louis/blog-288226.html Let's just say that this morning didn't start off like I had planned. I decided to get up at 800 a.m. get my shower get ready and cook breakfast for everyone. My famous bacon egg and cheese McMuffins. The McMuffins never saw the light of day today but we did have some awesome tomato sandwiches for lunch Between the two salesmen one sales manager and my husband no one thought it necessary t http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/Missouri/St--Louis/blog-285348.html