Driving the Dream: America the Beautiful: St Louis Arch

Driving the Dream: America the Beautiful

We started driving the dream ten years ago, when we eloped to Las Vegas by a circuitous route that took us through plains and deserts, foothills and mountains, plateaus and forests. Each journey since has shown us that beauty can be found in the most unlikely of places on the road.

None of the photographs you find here have been retouched in any way. Photos appearing at this time were taken with a Canon point and shoot digital camera.

Thursday, October 18, 2007

St Louis Arch

The St. Louis Arch, Gateway to the West, Monument to US Western Expansion

On the first leg of our Oct 2007 journey to complete our honeymoon, we stopped off in St. Louis again. The city looks to have been cleaned up, particularly along the riverfront, where I spotted bullet holes in one stop sign on our last pass through in 1997. This time, we decided to make the ascent to the top of the Arch. The trip up was quite the adventure. As you can see from the photo below, the egg-like contraption we rode up 630ft in was rather cramped, and the door opening at the top was very much like being hatched.