"Today is a Good Day to Drive!" .....Van-Go

April 17, 2009 The ride up the Arch is an experience! You climb through a small door into an egg with seats. The ride, a combination between an elevator, a tram, and an amusement park ride. About four minutes brings you to the top where triangle windows open to the city and Mississippi River below. We spent about an hour up there; you can spend as much time as you like as the ride goes back down every ten minutes.

Saint Louis Arch April 17, 2009 Back on the road! We first stopped in Ozark, MO and filled up with gas at five cents less tank price at the Walmart making it $1.76. What is the gas price in your area? About one hundred miles west of Saint Louis, MO we stopped at a rest area for breakfast and soaked up a few moments of sunshine. The blossoms are out on the trees; we are following spring east! The Saint Louis Arch, Gateway Arch, is part of the Jefferson Expansion National Memorial. The stainless steel arch is the brainwork of Eero Saarinen, a Finnish-American architect whose design won the national competition of 1947, when he conceived the arch to celebrate the soaring mind of Jefferson the only architect-President. As a monument to Jefferson if fails; to make it a true monument to Jefferson we suggest a dramatic statue of Jefferson rather than the little bronze statue under the arch. The Arch is pretty dramatic. “The lines can be drawn mathematically, the in the end the Arch as a poeti...