On Day 3 of our journey we woke up to the view of the Gateway Arch, across the Mississippi, which was at flood stage due to the previous day's storms. It was really windy and we were not sure if we were going to be able to tour the Arch. To our surprise, the Arch was open, so we made our reservations, with less than one half hour to get there. Not a problem, right as we are just across the river-except we had to go through security like at the airport and I forgot I had mace in my purse. While I waited in line, Al jogged back to the parking lot (about 1/2 mile) dropped of the mace, and jogged back. We got through security, bought our National Park Senior passes, picked up our
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