the lou

3:11pm sat 8/25/07
We have arrived in St. Louis.
It was a long journey but we are here. We are staying in a dorm room/guest housing because our apartment won’t be ready until Monday (new carpeting).

We are going to go explore our new hometown. There is an area called “The Loop”. It is where the streetcar used to turn around back in the day. The Loop is a few blocks on Del Mar Blvd where there are cool bars (one with 50 beers on tap. Yum. I will drink them all. Tonight. Now) and restaurants, a cool old theater (the Trivoli), a sweet music venue (The Pagent), and Chuck Berry’s bar, Blueberry Hill. He performs there every month or so. That would be a fun show. We cruised by The Loop when we visited in the fall and I am anxious to check it out tonight.

The trip across the USA was fun. I had all these audio books to listen too, but we mainly ingested local radio. It set a good mood. A local Navajo station while driving though Monument Valley provided an interesting mix of tribal songs and Michael Bolton-ish 80’s ballads. Blues in Kansas City