Tourist Gothic

photo by Melissa

We left Monday morning, July 18th, from Knoxville. Our good friend Melissa snapped this shot right before she went to work with more sane folks (she's a therapist in a substance abuse center). Genna is prepared to do some heavy sleeping -- Tempurpedic pillow, 40 gig Ipod, eyeshades.

You can't drive through St. Louis and not take a picture of the arch. Demonstrating true photographic prowess, Genna got both of these late afternoon views out the passenger window of a car moving at 60mph thru rush hour traffic. I love the image on the left with the trees in the foreground because it gives such an other worldly appearance to the arch -- that, and the fact there are no other objects in frame. The image on the right shows the sculptural features better, I think. Click them both for larger images.

We ended up in Columbia, Missouri, bought a wi-fi card, ate at Macoroni Grill and called it a day. A little over 600 miles. The car rides great and the XM radio is a real treat -- Al Franken's show is much better. He's no Limbaugh in terms of raw talent, but obviously the content is better.

A lot more tomorrow.