{"id":705,"date":"2004-07-28T06:27:00","date_gmt":"2004-07-28T13:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=705"},"modified":"2004-07-28T06:27:00","modified_gmt":"2004-07-28T13:27:00","slug":"were-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=705","title":{"rendered":"We’re Here…"},"content":{"rendered":"

[I would have posted this last night, but the DSL connection was very very slow (to the point of unusability). It is much<\/i> better this morning.]<\/font><\/p>\n

We have arrived safely in St. Louis. <\/p>\n

The aesthetics of flying continue to go downhill. Both legs of the flights were sardine cans, 757s and 737s packed to the rafters. I remember the days when flying was comfortable… not any more! Mercifully, the process at LAX was easy. It was my first time checking baggage since 9\/11, and United had these nifty self-check-in units, so the process went very smooth. TSA was organized, and the wait through the security line wasn’t bad, although both gf_guruilla<\/a> and I had something in our carry-ons that made them want to hand-check them—after a second pass through, everything was fine. STL looks to be less organized; we’ll find out when we leave.<\/p>\n

Our rental car is a Kia Rio, from Enterprise. Nice, albeit a little underpowered. The folks at Enterprise were extremely<\/i> friendly.<\/p>\n

We got together with my long time friend Linda R. out here. She’s the daughter of my mom’s best friend; Linda has known me all my life (and even before :-)). We’ll be spending a batch of time with her. We met her when we had dinner.<\/p>\n

We scored on the hotel<\/a>. About $45\/night for 2 queen beds, a breakfast buffet, FREE DSL!, in a nice suburb, full cable channels.<\/p>\n

That’s it for now. The rest of the family is still asleep. I’ll wake them shortly so we can get breakfast and go visit things. Not sure what we’ll do today yet: it will either be St. Charles, the Arch, or Forest Park.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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