Happy Birthday America!!!! You’re 236 years old today and you don’t look a year over 225. This morning was the beginning of a very long 36-hour stretch that sees us now in St. Louis getting ready to go to the Cards game vs Colorado. After tonight’s game, thanks to the rainout in Philadelphia closing in on 2 weeks ago, we are set for a marathon drive of over 1450 miles to our next destination, Phoenix Arizona. But before we get to that let’s review today’s activities. We started with Pat behind the wheel for the trip into St. Louis. When we left Chattanooga we left I-75 for the final time in this trip. From northern Michigan to south Florida and a lot of area in between we saw a whole lot of I-75. We got onto I-24 heading in a northwesterly direction up to Nashville. We continued on into Kentucky past Paducah and into Illinois until we got to where we met up with I-64 by Mt. Vernon Illinois and that took us directly to St. Louis. But first, Pat had to drop a little "local knowledge" on us and stopped at O'Fallon Illinois where he stayed back in the early 1980's while serving in the US Air Force out of Scott Air Force Base just outside of O'Fallon. The game tonight in St. Louis is an hour earlier than normal with the holiday and a blessing for us with our next game in Phoenix. We crossed the Mississippi River right at St. Louis and had some time before the game so wedecided to take a trip inside the Gateway Arch. If you are the least bit claustrophobic this isn’t the site to see. We had a little time for this sightseeing visit before we got to a Starbucks to get this message out. After the game tonight we will gas up and hit a fast food place to get us loaded for the road and get the post game message out. Until then…
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