I believe this is my longest delay ever. I started writing this almost 2 months ago and just decided to finish it up today. Guess nobody expected any different at this point, so let’s get on with it!
When Money and I originally planned the trip down, we decided that we would try to stop in at least a couple cool places to make the trip more entertaining. Of course, that was when we had planned to leave Saturday morning, which was even later revised to late Friday night. Instead, we didn’t leave until Saturday afternoon, which offered much less stopping time. We weren’t exactly on a schedule, but we had to get there by Wednesday, and once we started driving, we just kind of wanted to keep going. Plus, we could maximize the time he had to hang out in Arizona before having to hike the Grand Canyon. So instead of stopping in any specific locations, we just drove as long as we could every day and tried to take pictures of random stuff along the way.
Since we were so far behind and it was already so late in the day, we knew we wouldn’t get too far on Friday and decided that St. Louis would make a great first stop. One of the things we really thought we needed to get a picture of was the St. Louis Arch, which I had never seen it before and Money had actually been inside. Once we got close enough to it, I pulled off the expressway so we could stop and try to get a decent shot of it. This seemed like a good enough idea, except for one tiny little problem; I got off in East St. Louis.
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