HCOD Road Trip Day 3

The Gateway Arch and downtown St. Louis taken from across the Mississippi River in East St. Louis, Illinois

Today was the first day when all four of us were together.  It was a hot and somewhat humid day in St. Louis but we wanted to tour the historic areas of the downtown.  Additionally, we wanted to see the world's second biggest fountain, which is the Gateway Geyser, located across the Mississippi River in beautiful downtown East St. Louis, Illinois.

As the geyser only is on display three times a day, we thought we would drive across the MLK bridge over to East St. Louis to catch its noon showing.  The Gateway Geyser has three 800 h.p. pumps that push the water up over 500 ft.  Unfortunately, two of the pumps were not working and the operator told us that we would only see water rise about 200 ft.  A bit of a let down.

We crossed back across the "Big Muddy", as the Mississippi is called, found a place to park near the waterfront and the arch, then ate a very nice lunch at a place by the name of Hannigan's.  The food was tasty and the service was excellent!

Afterward, we walked many blocks around downtown St. Louis just seeing what we could see.  Exploring, for the most part.  We worked our way over to the Old Courthouse and then to the Gateway Arch, where we watched the movie about Lewis and Clark and their trip westward.  The movie gave us a pretty good idea as to where we would be going.

By this time, it was five o'clock and we decided to head back to the hotel and find a place for dinner.  After some time together gathered in my room, the four of us decided to have dinner at a nearby restaurant by the name of Lombardo's.  Another excellent choice.  When we exited the restaurant, it was raining.  It had been threatening most of the day but it cooled everything off nicely.

Looking up at the inside of the Old Courtrhouse Dome.  You can see the Old
Courthouse in the distance under the center of the Arch in the top photograph.

We were all pretty tired as we finally returned to our rooms about 8 p.m.

Tomorrow, we will start west.  I can't wait.  It will be a good day!

Thanks for looking.

Dennis Mook

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