Woke up on the floor of Rich's place today. I had been sleeping on my sleeping pad. It is what I am taking on my world wide tour so I better get used to it. The pad was actually pretty good to sleep on. I didn't wake up sore at all, which was something I was very grateful of.
We dropped Rich off at the Shedd, and picked up some more pizza. We wanted to stick around for a bit and eat the pizza by the lake. It was just a gorgeous day. They also had a path the ran up and down the beach, I really wanted to ride my bike down the shore. Too bad I left it in Seattle. Anyway, the bad thing about Chicago is that you just can't park there. We didn't find any. I guess my advice would be, if you go to Chicago bring the bike but forget the car.
From there we headed off to our next destination, St. Louis. And I would like to say something nice about the drive down, but it was pretty boring. Corn fields and soy bean fields all just blended in together. The only interesting park was the stop to swim in Lake Springfield. The lake was pretty murky and there was goose crap everywhere. Stranger wouldn'g get in, but Badger and I had a good time. The water was cool, and it was nice to be out of the car. We swam around for 20 mintues before heading back to the car.
Oh, and for the Zodiac readers out there, I saw signs for Sangamon, Taylorville and Stevenson(sic) roads outside of Springfield. That seemed just a bit more than coincidental. So the next person to see the author should ask him if he spent much time there.
Anyway, we got to St. Louis and drove around for a bit. I guess that downtown is pretty dead on the weekends and evenings. There was a little bit of a croud because of the Rock the River show going on under the Arch. We headed over there and had a little picnic in the park to finish off the rest of the pizza. We wandered around the croud for a bit before getting bored.
We went back to the car, and were going to find someplace to stay for the night. Stranger wanted to hit a casino up the street and get some poker in. Badger wanted to get some gas since we were almost out. So between the two this ended with us getting basically lost in East St. Louis. This is not a place where you want to get lost. I hate to say it, but the town looked like a craphole. Run-down boarded up buildings everwhere. We saw a lady of the evening plying her trade. When we did find a gas station, we beat a speady retreat back the the Missouri side.
After that we dropped Stranger off at the casino. Badger and I went out to see Public Enemies. Now this was a pretty good movie. Well worth the money. The sound is pretty amazing, so I think it is worth seeing in the theater. Michael Mann still makes some of the best action movies around.
-Dravis
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