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Vacation south through St Louis, MO

I was worried about the support roof frames on the boat; needed more boards. Left as is all winter, it very likely would fill up with rainwater and sink. So I put a dozen small boards under the foam sleeping pad in the camper shell and a battery powered drill and headed south.

I missed the exit south to by-pass the city and had to drive through downtown St. Louis, Missouri to get back on I-55 south.

That slender oval sticking up in the morning haze is the Arch.

The new Rams football stadium, has a retractable roof. The Rolling Stones played there; I was there but only outside as the concert rocked, could not hear a sound from within.

It was just after dawn so there was very little traffic.

I got back onto the "frontage road" that runs above the sunken interstate lanes.

All photos taken while driving, wanted to be south before rush hour. I think this is the old Capital Building, never been inside thou.

The CBS TV station building on right of street sign. Went in there a very long time ago to get a job, but I wasn’t pretty enough.

Just one of the many south St. Louis old churches. Near Arch.

Barely saw this to snap off: Busch beer factory. Turning the brown water of the river into “yummy beer”.

Mississippi River flows under this interstate bridge into Memphis, TN. There is a sidewalk along side of this very long, old bridge; I’ve seen one walker cross it just at dusk, I’ve been over it a few dozen times.

I do a sleep-over in the 24/7 hour WALMART parking lot at Granada, MS, 450 miles driving. Usually there are 3-5 RVs or semi-trucks also sleeping over. All night security car roams the lot.

The entire length of interstate I-55 south through Mississippi 300 miles, looks like this and there are less than 5 long rolling hills & a couple long curves. Quite the endurance run; average speed 78 and the only cops I’ve ever seen was a squad of drug busters surrounding an old Cadillac.

The town of Jackson has the worst bumpy, hilly, curvy interstate road!

Entering Jackson, MS; speed limit is 55 but the locals always drive like in a race and I think they may be worse than St. Louis drivers.

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