Yesterday was our last travel day—now we’re home from the college visit trip.<\/p>\n
We started out by attempting to visit the Gateway Arch<\/a>. I say “attempted” because of a combination of circumstances (closure of one entrance combined with Marine Week St. Louis<\/a>) meant the line to get through security was crazy. So instead we just walked around the riverfront (which was a bit flooded up to the first street), and had lunch over in Laclede’s Landing<\/a>. <\/p>\n After that, we meandered back to Forest Park for one last drive. We drove up Market along a long series of beautiful downtown parks<\/a> (St. Louis is really a park city), past St. Louis Union Station<\/a>, past Harris-Stowe State University<\/a> and St. Louis University<\/a>, through the Central West End of St. Louis<\/a>, and through Forest Park. One last drive through Wash U., and it was on to the airport. A short hop to Denver, and then a slightly longer hop to Los Angeles, and we were home.<\/p>\n On the whole, it was a good trip. The college visits were informative, and we got to see a lot of interesting sites. My wife will be doing another college visit trip to Portland in August, but she doesn’t write the travellogues as I do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Yesterday was our last travel day—now we’re home from the college visit trip. We started out by attempting to visit the Gateway Arch. I say “attempted” because of a combination of circumstances (closure of one entrance combined with Marine Week St. Louis) meant the line to get through security was crazy. So instead we just Read More …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[356],"class_list":["post-4529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lj-xfer","tag-erins-college-visit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}