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Anonymous
I rode through Forest Park on my way into town and then spent three enjoyable hours at the Missouri Botanical Garden, which is highly recomended. I dropped my panniers off at the hostel even though I couldn't check-in at the time, then headed downtown. After riding around some I headed over to the Arch (as I recall it's properly know as the National Expansion Memorial, although perhaps it should be called screw the native Americans memorial) on the Mississippi and found out that all the tickets for rides to the top were sold out for the day. I enjoy industrial architecture so spent some time exploring some of the older business districts of the downtown area. I decided to make a trip across the bridge to East St. Louis in Illinois but found myself on what had become a limitedaccess road and quickly back-tracked. I was back in St. Louis when I alarmingly discovered that I waw missing Chips, my bear (hello Rufus) who has toured in many states and 12 countries with me. Having visions of him being in the middle of the road and flattened by an 18-wheeler I rode as fast as I could. I happily found him by the side of the road where I had turned around in Illinois and we had a teary reunion after the brief separation. I walked to dinner from the hostel to a local bar called Hammerstones where I ended up staying for dinner and music.
>> Anonymous
Cool picture.
>> elf_man !fBgo7jDjms
Hey, bear's mooning us. Ah well.
Nice, I like.
>> Anonymous
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But Chips didn't want to come join me at the jig. he was fascinated with scat. I had to pry him away from the road after he made a scene in front of a rowdy group of broads who came cruizing by in a ragtop. Chips hasn't been the same ever since. Sometimes I think he longs for those days he spent squatting by oncoming traffic with that silly grin plastered on his stupid little face. I never quite understood his fascination with releaving his bowels in public.
>> Anonymous
i like the pic
i think it would have a better sense of being left behind if the highway was empty(or at least that one car gone)
>> Anonymous
tl;dr

nice pic though