Geo: 35.9605, -83.92085/31/12 – It was a dark and dreary day in St. Louis this morning. It was sprinkling rain and overcast when we left at 8:15, 61 degrees. But it promised to improve as we moved eastward, and it did. We pointed the car toward Knoxville, TN for a long day of driving.Almost immediately, we drove through the city of St. Louis and I took a few photos of the arch, though they are less than spectacular, given the weather and that I took them from a moving car. We chose not to stop, since we had both climbed to the top of that arch on previous visits to the city. And we crossed the muddy Mississippi River on the Martin Luther King, Jr. bridge. The river was bustling with activity, as it was in
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