DAY 2 - After our not-so-restful night in Hotel Jimmy, we traveled to the beautiful city of St. Louis. Even though it was extremely HOT (90 degrees to be exact), we ended up spending a good amount of time walking around and taking some fun pictures at the Gateway Arch. With the help of a Park Ranger, we found that we could just walk to the Old Courthouse and not have to stand in a huge line just to go to the gift shop. This was no ordinary Courthouse...this was the Old Courthouse where Dred Scott was tried! We had a little bit of fun talking to the gift shop staff and finally acquired what Chase had been longing for...our NATIONAL PARKS PASS!!! This little baby is going to be our ticket to alot of wonderful sites as we make our way out west. We also acquired a National Parks Passport where we can stamp our passport as we visit all the different parks!
We then began our journey through Missouri, and were looking forward to a barbecue dinner in Kansas City! Little did we know, that THIS is where things would begin to get interesting...
WE MADE IT TO KANSAS CITY...WAIT, WE DROVE THROUGH KANSAS CITY!!! Enough said....
Next stop, Topeka...surely there will be a place there where we can get some good 'ol Kansas barbecue. For those of you who have been to Kansas, you probably know that this was NOT the case. We drove through the desolate streets of downtown Topeka (keep in mind, this is Saturday evening) wondering if zombies had come in and devoured the entire population of this sad little town. So, instead of barbecue, we settled for the ONLY OPEN RESTAURANT IN TOPEKA AT 6:00PM ON SATURDAY...Pepe & Chela's Mexican Fiesta, where we saw not one Mexican employee.
I will say one last thing...we hate Kansas. We never want to go back. They don't even have maps to give away. Sunflower state? We saw not ONE sunflower...except on signs.
Unfortunately, we could not get out of Kansas that night and had to spend the night once again in Hotel Jimmy at a rest area as desolate as the rest of the state.
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