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.
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