June 6, 2017
This was our longest drive yet: 475 miles and 6 states (Tennessee, Georgia, Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois and Missouri). We shared the driving (well, Dave took the hard parts like Monteagle Mountain, Nashville and St. Louis) and the worst part of the trip was the bugs we inadvertently collected on the windshield.
We stopped for the night in St. Charles, Missouri. We explored on foot from the campground and added support for the idea that we don’t ever have to be sad about leaving beautiful spots–there are an infinite number of beautiful places.
St. Charles Ecopark
Maybe because mosquitoes are seasonal here, they seem to have significantly greater numbers. We didn’t linger in these lovely shady spots.
Dave at Blanchette Landing on the Missouri River
The pentunias smelled great!
The Wabash Bridge, constructed in 1936 and probably using the masonry piers of the first bridge to span the Missouri, completed in 1871.
Cottonwood tree bloom
2 Comments
Esther McAfee · June 18, 2017 at 11:11 am
Did you by chance go up in the arch? Jack got me to go, and I wasn’t sure I could get back in the “car” to go back down. The movie on the building of the arch was fascinating.
Jane Appel · June 19, 2017 at 8:18 am
We enjoyed our trip up the arch–in 1987. I’m pretty height-phobic but didn’t have too much problem here, if I remember correctly.