St Louis

Well, finally arrived in St. Louis at about 06:00am after an 18 hour bus journey. Wouldn't have been so bad if we didn't stop every couple of hours for toilet / cigarette breaks - the stops themselves weren't the problem, the driver switching on all the lights each time was! As everywhere was still closed I spent a couple of hours sitting in the park underneath the Arch. After breakfast, headed up to the hostel which was a little further than expected. Met up with a few guys in the hostel and did the Budweiser brewey tour (free beer - admittedly only Bud but when it's free you can't complain - the tour is free as well). In the afternoon a smaller group of us (trying to remember names: I think it was Matt and Tom from the UK, who are in a band 'Special Guests' and Craig from Australia) headed down to the City Museum. For those of you that went to Jackie's birthday do down in Plymouth - its a bit like to park we went to on the Monday but with recycled and scrap material - old cars, fire trucks, planes, dinosaur sculptures etc. etc. to crawl around in! Needs to be seen to be believed (will sort out some photos soon when I find a PC that will take USB or a memory card). After a bite to eat we headed back to the hostel to wait for a phone call to act as extras in a film. Unfortunately the call never came (although they did phone back a couple of days later when I was leaving).

The Tuesday was a bit quieter as the rest of the guys had already headed off to Memphis (which is my next destination) so spent some time wandering around the more traditional touristy bits. So had lunch in Laclede's Landing on the waterfront, spent some more time in the park and went up to the top of the Gateway Arch, which gave some good photos over the city. I then headed to the ball park to see if there was a game on. There wasn't so that will have to be one for another day.

Next destination needs an early start - heading off to Memphis.