Day 66 - Heading Home

Hey tour guide, where to today?  KW, we are heading home. Oh, so we are homeward bound. Yes KW. Hey tour guide, i think i will write a song. Ok KW, get back to me. 

 

Here we come Pennsylvania. 

Stopped in Claysville PA for breakfast at the Main Street Cafe. Great food. 

 

Hey tour guide, why did you take a pix of that Robot with a big eyeball?  KW, it is a parking meter. You have to put money in it to pay to park. Most parking meters today use credit cards. This one still uses nickels, dimes, and quarters. How old are you anyway tour guide?

 

Tour guide, why are we back in West Virginia?  

 

 

Stopping at Bruceton Mills Antique Mall. More old people stuff shopping tour guide?  Yes KW. Ok then we will sit this one out. Hey tour guides brother, you remember this place?

Hey tour guide, stop looking over my shoulder. I'm working on that song. I call it Homeward bound. Listen to it. I have just started, but i think it sounds good. Each town looks the same to me, I long to be Homeward bound, I wish I was Homeward bound, Home where my thought's escaping. KW, it looks like your doing it again. That is already a song. Ah man, I just can't win.  

 

 

TTFN:  No wait. 

That's all folks. 

Just a few notes:

9635 miles driven (mostly by Mrs tour guide). 

10 National Parks. 

105 stamps in the books. 

17 new states visited. 

22 states in all. 

66 days. 

66 rocks collected. 

160 hours of driving. 

141.18 miles hiked. 

The tour guide and Mrs tour guide would like to thank KW & CJ for allowing us to chauffeur them on their Most Excellent Adventure. But most of all, we thank God for taking us to see his magnificent creation. What a beautiful country we live in. 

Day 65 - 65's are wild

Leaving Louisville on I70 passing this WWE truck. IF YA SMELLLLLLLLLL.....What the Rock......is cooking!

 

Beautiful Sunrise. 

 

Kentucky Speedway. Mrs tour guide wanted to see the track so we veered off to see it. 

 

The gang wanted to see the track also. 

 

Passing the Cincinnati Reds baseball stadium. The Great American Ball Park. 

Jerome Bettis was in the antique mall we stopped at in Barnsville, Ohio. He was gracious enough to take a selfie with the tour guide. Oh tour guide, Mrs tour guide calls this an usie. Ok KW, you are right, but we still took a selfie. 

 

Heading into Wild and Wonderful West Virginia. 

 

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Now for 65's are Wild. This is day 65 of KW&CJ's Most Excellent Adventure.  We both turned 65 in july. The speed limit on the interstate we traveled today was 65.  We are staying off Hwy 65. 

 

 

Day 64 - Swinging for the Fences

 

Hillerich & Bradsby Company. 

 

You can kiss it Good-Bye. Right handed swing. 

 

And now, left handed. 

 

Reberto Clemente, the Greatest Right Fielder, Ever. No debates please. You will lose. 

Usie Time. Sorry KW. Mrs tour guide likes usies. Tour guide just takes the pix. 

 

 

Today's MLB Standings. 

 

Gallopalooza in Louisville Kentucky. 

 

 

Hey Gang, Looks like tour guide is about to open up a can of whoop, KW, you can't say that in this blog. Oh ok, tour guide is about to begin clobbering time. 

 

Eating at Manny & Merle. Yes, yes there are tacos, and we ate every bite. They were yummo. 

 

Mrs tour guide chilling by the fountain. 

Tour guide, you said butt. 

Great art exhibit. All pieces are made from gun parts, guns, bullets. 

 

 

Gallopalooza

If there are two things our city is known for, it’s bourbon and horses. So we’ve brought Gallopalooza back, with a bridles and bourbon theme. It’s time to dress up the city with intricately crafted statues throughout the community. Be on the lookout for large horse statues (some of them even standing on bourbon barrels) and six-foot-tall mint julep cups. 

Just a few words. 

 

 

 

 

Day 63 - Saint Louis & Louisville

Our last sunrise in Kingdom City Missouri. Heading east. 

 

KW we are going to wash the jeep. Cool, tour guide, can we help? No, but thanks, this is an automatic car wash. You just drive in, sit back and relax, drive out. 

 

Whoa tour guide, I'm melting, I'm melting. KW, don't be so dramatic. 

 

 

We are in Saint Louis Missouri. Behind us is the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial better known as the Gateway Arch. 

Hey tour guide, they made one our size. 

 

 

There she goes again CJ, Mrs tour guide is stamping in her books again. KW, she's smiling large, must be a lot of stamps. 

 

Busch Stadium, home of the St. Louis Cardinals. 

 

 

Lincoln's Boyhood National Memorial. 

 

We arrived here too late. The doors were locked. The park ranger was walking up to put the flag inside. Mrs tour guide asked if she could get her book stamped. 

 

 

Mrs tour guide very, very, happy. Thank you to this 84 year old Park Ranger, Louis Disinger. Great guy. 

 

 

Next stop, Louisville Kentucky. 

 

 

TTFN

The Gateway Arch is a 630-foot (192 m) monument in St. louis in the U.S. state of Missouri.  Clad in stainless steel and built in the form of an inverted, weighted  catenary arch,  it is the world's tallest arch, the tallest man-made monument in the Western Hemisphere, and Missouri's tallest accessiable building. Built as a monument to the westward expansion of the United States, it is the centerpiece of the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial and has become an internationally famous symbol of St. Louis.

The arch sits at the site of St. Louis' founding on the west bank of the Mississippi River. 

The Gateway Arch was designed by Finnish-American architect Eero Saarinen in 1947; construction began on February 12, 1963, and was completed on October 28, 1965, for $13 million  (equivalent to $190 million in 2015). The monument opened to the public on June 10, 1967.

Day 62 - Sir Winston Churchill

Sunrise on Sunday morning in Missouri. 

 

The National Churchill Museum. 
 

Hey tour guide, when does this movie start?  Where's the popcorn?  What is this movie about. KW, it's about World War II and Winston Churchill. Oh ok, I know about him.  He made some famous speeches. 

 

Church of St Mary, Aldermanbury.  Westminster College, Fulton Missouri. 

 

This is another fine Antique Mall. Hey Jason, we bought absolutely nothing. Can you imagine that. 

 

Again another real nice old RC Cola Cooler this time.  Again it it way over priced. It's, like the other two, still in the store. 

 

Church of St Mary, Aldermanbury

 

The predecessor of this church building was originally constructed in the City of London during the 12th century, but burned down in the Great fire of London in 1666. The church was erected as its replacement by Christopher Wren in the 17th century. During World War II the Wren church was gutted by German Bombs and in the mid-1960s, it was dismantled and shipped stone-by-stone to Fulton and reconstructed on Westminster’s campus. Today, the church serves as the College’s chapel.

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