August 12, 2009Heading up through Land Between the Lakes to Kentucky, we stayed at another state park at Hillman Ferry where I painted the following morning. Later we stopped for lunch in Paducah before heading through the southern tip of Illinois on Rt. 3.
By late afternoon we make it to St Louis and stop at the arch. It is my first view of the landmark and I never knew it was possible to go up into the top of the arch. The ride is somewhere between the angled elevator ride of the Eiffel Tower and an enclosed ferris wheel. The tiny rounded capsules only carry 5 people and the slanted windows of the arch walkway offer a dizzying view of the river and the city below. Leaving St Louis in the early evening we encounter our first rainstorm and stop at a campground in Columbia.
