Day 2 of our trip is behind us! We started off from Lexington, KY, which was a great place. As we traveled up I-64 we noticed a fellow Coastie in uniform driving with VA tags on his Mustang. Then we realized another truck in front of him, that he was obviously following, that had VA tags that was carrying a full bedroom suit. Through deductive reasoning we figured out the fellow Coastie was a 3rd class who was on his way to The Louisville Station to report for duty. No, we did not try to get his attention. I'll have to say, Indiana is some of the most beautiful country side I have seen in a while. Then on to IL, which had a nice prarie view as well. As we got closer to Missouri we noticed the rivers were especially high and tons of debries floating down stream. I had no idea that IN and IL were such oil rich states (relatively speaking); every farm I saw had workding oil dikes on them. To be honest I didn't even know what one was until I asked Andy what those see - saw things were in the middle of the farms. Finally we arrived in St. Louis-----and we of course had to go see the Gateway to the West. WOW! What a great park and monument. Unfortunately it was an hour and a half wait to get to the top and we had he dogs with us so we decided just to admire the beauty of it. We decided to drive a little further outside of St. Louis to Foristell, MO population is 331, we have learned. We went to a Mexican restaurant for dinner where a "waspy" looking female showed us our table (sign # 1 we shouldn't have stayed). Our waitress even had blond hair and blue eyes and probably didn't even knwo how to say "yes" in spanish! Anyway, the food was definitely pushing below average. Score; we have free HBO!!! But, Harry Potter is on : ( I finally realize what The Allman Bros were saying when they sang "Last Sunday Morning, the Sunshine Felt Like Rain" We are definitely ready to get to Alaska and cool off!!!
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