Houston Day 2

So we woke up and decided to get to St. Louis as soon as we could. So we got in the car and gotta' driving. At around noon we got OUT OF ILLINOIS! What a crappy state. Its really long too. So we crossed the Mississippi River.

There was TONS of flooding, but we crossed without much fanfare. After some rough in-city traffic we parked and stretched the legs at the Jefferson Memorial Park (the one w/the arch). St. Louis is a cool town. Its very big

and stretched out, but lots of cute little brick houses for as far as the eye can see. The brewers happened to be playing the cards in town, but we obviously didn't stop because we needed to get a move-on. I got some nice footage of the Arch. Its a very impressive statue that will be around forever. The rest of the city was... ok.

I did a little background research and found out that even though the city is very old, it got ravaged by a fire a

nd a tornado and so most of the great old historic buildings from the 1700's are gone. :-(

As it turns out, it used to be the 4th largest city in the US! Not any

more. The arch really kicks ass though. It makes you kinda proud to be a human.

So we moved on and gotta driving in MO. After St. Louis the landscape changes. The trees all of a sudden become the southern conifers and everything is really flat. Lots of X-stan radio stations too. Our destination was Memphis, and after a 50 mile jaunt into Arkansas (never go, I'm telling you...

I-55 through Arkansas has nothing in it. Nothing. for miles) we reached Memphis in TN. Well, they have kinda like a "state street" where B. B. King

got his start. That one street was hopping, but the rest of the city is falling apart. It looked really really bad. About half the build

ings we saw were abandoned and falling apart. We did find an awesome little barbecue joint and got some more cholesterol. I told you, i'm going for death before TX. I'll make it too. It had the best baked beans I've ever had bar none.

We felt like we should keep going to make the trip to

New Orleans tomorrow a little nicer so we drove about an hour south of Memphis into Mississippi and are chilling at a hotel in Batesville MS. Fun. I've never been to the south before so this will be interesting.

Driving on highways instead of backroads is twice as fun.

I'll give ya'll an update tomorrow as well.