Photos: Trip to Florida, Day 2 -- from St. Louis to Lewisburg, Kentucky

When we got up this morning in our Days Inn Motel in St. Louis, Missouri, we looked out our 3rd-floor window and found ------------ the wheels were still on the Jeep.  Even the tires were still intact!  So we ate breakfast -- we were the only ones in the breakfast nook ... and maybe the entire hotel.  The breakfast was good, I'll give them that.  Waffles... oatmeal in a big cooker... omelets... various dried cereals... toast... milk... orange juice... apple juice...  Then we gathered our things, loaded the Jeep, and headed southeast.

Looking out our window...  a run-down house in the middle of a tall fence with barbed wire at the top -- in the middle of a lot that is also surrounded by a tall fence with barbed wire at the top.  In the middle of the lot is a picnic table.  ??

Right across the street from the Days Inn -- they buy metal.  Reckon that's where the van that was stolen from the parking lot three weeks ago vanished to?

A wider view of the lot catty-corner from the Inn.

There's our Jeep down there in the parking lot -- amazingly enough, still whole and intact.

Packing up

We had our bikes in our room

The room itself was nice enough.  There are a refrigerator and a microwave behind the cabinet doors.

Fortunately, they supplied a baggage cart.  Last night, it would hardly roll, because the tires were nearly flat.  So Larry broke out his new bike tire pump and aired them up.

Lobby

All around the motel, this is the general scenery.

Busch Stadium

Ball Park Village

One Metropolitan Square straight ahead.  Tallest building in St. Louis (other than the Arch), second tallest building in Missouri.

Cheapest overnight lodging in St. Louie.

Pathetic, isn't it?

Gateway Arch -- 630 feet high.

World's tallest arch, tallest man-made monument in the Western Hemisphere, Missouri's tallest accessible building.

Construction was completed October 28, 1965, for $13 million (equivalent to $180 million in 2013).  Opened to the public on June 10, 1967.  Read about it here.

The Old St. Louis County Courthouse, built in 1828.

The Arch is closed for a few weeks for renovation, so we didn't get to go up in it.

Just look at the luxury motorhomes outside the luxury hotels in downtown St. Louis.

View out our sunroof.

Amazing ornate detailing on all these old buildings.

Sounds funny, here under the Interstate.

Union Electric Light & Power Company.  Building no longer in use

Here's where we should have stayed.

See the new bridge behind the old?

Part of the Stan Musial Veterans Memorial Bridge.  Opened February 9, 2014.

Trucks waiting to unload grain.

Conveyor to take grain out to waiting barges.

One Metropolitan Square

Grain conveyor

St. Louis skyline from the east side of the Mississippi River.

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Open air garbage?

We found our town!

Font problems

And then it rained.

We're running parallel with the Duck River -- and we cross it often.