Started the morning early in my horrible Indianapolis hotel. I kept checking out the window to make sure my car wasn't being broken in to after I decided to go to the market across the street. The people in that area were...interesting. I noticed I seemed to be the only person purchasing food at this market, the other customers were either there for cigarettes, cashing food stamps, or getting lottery tickets out of the machine and then running back to the counter to claim their winnings, then back to the machine to put the winnings in and get more tickets. I was excited when I left because I would actually get time to spend in St. Louis and I really wanted to see the arch.
After 4 hours of farm land driving again listening to Howard Stern (interviewing Charlie Sheen about WINNING) I got to St. Louis. The arch is obviously huge, it looks just as big as any other building in the city. I actually tried to visit this arts/gardens portion of the city but I couldn't find it and people we getting pissed watching my tourist ass drive in circles. So I went straight to the arch and took a ton of pictures of it. It is really hard to put into words is so random but so cool. Then after the amazement and excitement went away and I was ready to hit the road again. St. Louis as a city is absolutely beautiful in the center city and downtown area. I know many people love Philly and don't want to hear it but it really makes Philly look like garbage. The weirdest thing though approaching the city is just nothing on either side of the highway, not lots of housing on either side like when you go into Philly. I could see myself living there.
For some reason these next 3 hours driving were really rough. I felt like it was taking forever until I finally got to my hotel in Springfield MO. It is a typically rural town/city and the people are the "salt of the earth". Everyone who I have dealt with is extremely nice, but they can tell I am not from around here because I am not wearing overalls and have all of my teeth. The hotel is nicer then the last one, for some reason I feel safer with rednecks then with crackheads. I took a short run when I got here in the neighborhood it was so nice out. I'm pretty exhausted overall though. Tomorrow I'll be heading to Amarillo TX, I have one stop planned it should be pretty cool. Until next time!
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