Sept. 10th
I saw the St. Louis Gateway arch today. It was pretty foggy, so I decided not to go up, since the top of the arch was in the clouds. The museum underneath (about the westward expansion of the US) was interesting. They tried to be fair to the native Americans, but since the US wasn't really fair to them, it was not easy.
The area around the arch is pretty ugly. The waterfront is not very nice, and you can see an industrial plant right across the river. They are planning to redo the entire area, but it hasn't started yet. The current plan is to finish in 2015, but I doubt that will really happen. I think I'd like to go back when they are done with the renovation.
Then I drove to my sister's house in Indianapolis. I played three chess games with my nephew. (Lost the first one, won the other two.) (He's on the chess team at school, so he's actually pretty good, and I haven't played chess for a while.)
I'll be spending the weekend at my sister's and then driving again on Monday. Anything interesting between Indiana and New Jersey?
The area around the arch is pretty ugly. The waterfront is not very nice, and you can see an industrial plant right across the river. They are planning to redo the entire area, but it hasn't started yet. The current plan is to finish in 2015, but I doubt that will really happen. I think I'd like to go back when they are done with the renovation.
Then I drove to my sister's house in Indianapolis. I played three chess games with my nephew. (Lost the first one, won the other two.) (He's on the chess team at school, so he's actually pretty good, and I haven't played chess for a while.)
I'll be spending the weekend at my sister's and then driving again on Monday. Anything interesting between Indiana and New Jersey?