St Louis, Swamp Crotch, and the Moonrise Hotel
As explorers and finding ourselves precariously in the middle of nowhere to see a graduation, which we were told was someplace in Missouri, we instinctively make the two hour trip to the launching pad and return point of possibly two of the most famed travelers of all time -- Louis and Clark. With a sense of flair they waited for a few hours there on the banks of the Mississippi in September of 1803. The riverbanks look very different now visible below the very sexy top floor bar lounge I am sitting at. After four years of trekking through uncharted wilderness, the last two years of which sustaining themselves on domesticated dog, they wanted to make sure the timing was just right. "[…] about 12 o'clock we arrived in site of St. Louis… fired three rounds as we approached the town […] the people gathered on the shore and huzza-ed three cheers[…] in the evening a dinner & ball". -- Lewis Diary Entry After a few more huzza's they and the entire town ended up a...