St.Louis, Beerland
This time I am going to take you to St.Louis. I am sure you are wondering of all places in U.S why on earth did I go there??? to see the anheuser busch?? Neah....
It all started on a cold friday 19th August 2005 three guys were talking rubbish and from no where Mt.Rushmore came into the topic...Neil said "Hey lets drive to Mt.Rushmore, its just 5 hours drive from our place..." So all three of us decided that we'll go to Mt.Rushmore...so we searched google for the route and found that Mt.Rushmore was about 16 hours drive...having thought of going to some place during the weekend we didnt want to drop the idea...so we googled more to find if there was any interesting place in and around Illinois....an alas we found there was world famous Meramec caverns. We planned to meet the next day at around 9 AM and start heading towards St.Louis...
By the time we started it was 12 noon...we proved that we are typical indians who follow IST(Indian Streachable Time). We went to O'hare exchanged our car to a Cherokee Jeep and started towards I-355 which later becomes I-55. St.Louis her we come..On the way we grabbed some burger to munch on the way.
When we were near St.Louis downtown we were able to see the grandeur arch...amazed at the size of the arch we turned our wheels toward the arch...finding direction to the arch was not that difficult as we could see the arch from any street in the downtown...We went to arch sat there facing the river that flows next to the arch and chatted for about 1.5 hours...soon we realised that we were getting delayed and we need to find a place to stay over night. On the way we found a Days Inn and so we rested over night at that Days Inn...We closed our eyes and opened it was 8AM the next day...
Soon all 3 of us got ready and packed our bags for Meramac Caverns...
We reached the caverns at around 11 AM.Going around the caverns with not much of enthu, we finished the tour of the caverns and started back home at around 1 PM...after long drive with a break at St.Louis for lunch we reached Chicago back at 10 PM. Though not a very interesting tour of caverns we enjoyed every bit of the unplanned trip of St.Louis...The trip was full of suspense as we dont where we were heading next...Hoping to have many more trips like this one...
