Thursday, September 07, 2006

The Spirit of St. Louis

Visited St. Louis yesterday. Let's recap (apologies, True.)
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Ok...Midwestern city; major industry/corporation, a brewery; downtown bordered by a fine Jesuit institution of higher learning; a dirty river; nice new ballpark for team that plays in the NL Central.

Milwaukee? Nope.

I forgot one other thing: big silver semi-circle kinda sorta thing down by the m-i-double s-i, double s-i, double s-i.

Just like Staten Island is "Brooklyn with trash," St. Louis is Milwaukee with a big arch-type thing.
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Rode up to the top of the arch thingamajig. It's 600+ feet up and accessible by a tram kinda sorta thing.

(tram kinda sorta thing = un-air conditioned shoebox with five close-together, uncomfortable seats that takes all sorts of herky-jerky action to get to the top in about five excrutiating minutes that, if you weren't claustrophobic prior to, you were post-haste...)

(holy run-on sentence, Batman)

So that was that. The St. Louis Gateway Arch. Off the list. And one-time deal.
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After sleeping for about 12 minutes last night, I woke up and walked to catch a very efficient and clean form of public transportation called Metrolink. The train took me from the area around new Busch Stadium to Lambert-St. Louis International airport.

In all, the city requires a return visit. Maybe even for a Cards game. If it's anything like Kansas City, which is only a little more than two hours down I-70, then me and the bbq ribs need to have a mafia-style sit-down.

Ok, that's all for today. Tedy Bruschi's back.

yh&os,
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3 comments:

  1. Anonymous10:14 AM

    I told you the ranch tram was claustrophobic.

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  2. Anonymous7:24 PM

    Mike,

    I am flying on Monday, yeah Monday, for business. Yes, it is irresponsible for my company to put me on a plane monday and make me take a less expensive flight that flies through DC. However, I will be in St. Louis on Monday until Friday. I am going to the Cards game on Tuesday. What are the chances you can be in St Louis. You can crash with me. No hot tub though.

    Nate

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  3. TLBR11:16 AM

    I won't be there, unfortunately. The new Busch Stadium looks nice, though.

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