Day 3 (Monday, June 6, 2005), Southern Illinois to Western Missouri

    

 

 

I made my camp the proceeding evening at West Frankfort, Illinois and breakfasted at a dinner on the main street. After breakfast I headed north up I-57, then west on I-64 toward St. Louis...

 

     

 

 

I approached St. Louis in the vicinity of the speedway...

 

 

East St. Louis... near the confluence of the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers, where the River Dubois (now the Wood River) meets the Mississippi. This is where Lewis & Clark made their winter camp during 1803-1804, prior to starting the westward expedition in earnest...

 

       

 

       

 

     

 

 

 

St. Louis...

       

 

 

 

At the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial...

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson_National_Expansion_Memorial

 

       

 

       

 

 

 

The Gateway Arch...

 

       

 

       

 

     

 

 

 

The Museum of Westward Expansion, under the Gateway Arch...

 

     

 

 

 

On through St. Louis...

       

 

 

 

Crossing the Missouri River at St. Charles, just west of St. Louis...

 

   

Along I-70, in eastern Missouri...

 

 

Crossing the Missouri River again, about 10 miles west of Columbia, Missouri...

 

I put in for the evening a little east of Independence, Missouri...