In the morning we parted ways with Dick and Jane. They headed to visit family in Mattoon, Illinois so Pierre and I decided to go to St Louis. I found us a super sweet RV park in St Charles, its called Sundermeier RV Park. Its right next to the Missouri River, so you can walk along the levee and watch the river flow by.
St Charles is a suburb of St Louis. It is primarily French and was founded by a French man named Louis Blanchette, he called it Les Petites Cotes or The Little Hills.
We drove into St Louis to go to the arch and just poke around the city, oh what a day we had, so much fun. When we got to the Arch we found out you have to have reservations to go up in it, so we decided to go ahead and make them for the next day, on the walk back to the car we stopped to talk to a local man, he told us to go to Delmar Loop. Delmar Loop is a restaurant, entertainment and cultural district in University City. In 2007 it was named one of the 10 great streets in America. We had lunch in the duck room at Blueberry Hill, a restaurant and music club, Chuck Berry played there the third Wednesday of each month till 2014. After lunch we took a walk down the St Louis walk of fame, and met a wonderful man named Raven Wolf... he plays his sax on the sidewalk next to Blueberry hill. What a sweetheart! We spoke with him for awhile, he is headed to New Mexico next, he's a free spirit!
I was looking for some St Louis sticker so I went into a shop that sold t-shirts and such. Couldn't find any stickers anywhere so we drove over to Soulard Farmer Market... Pierre got a text (we are not sure from whom) that we really needed to see this farmers market....oh yea...
Walking back to the car I saw a small little local shop and went inside..still searching for stickers, no luck but the lady told me that there was a shop in Cherokee Landing called Stlye.
Now...Cherokee Landing is a hidden treasure in St Louis, spanning a couple miles down Cherokee Street there is antique, collectible and specialty shops, art galleries, restaurants and cafés. You can wander along the tree lined streets or visit the Lemp Mansion,
home of the ill-fated beer barons and considered one of the most haunted houses in America.
We finally found Stlye (I got stickers!) and the owner told a little about Cherokee Landing , but he also gave a few more jems to visit in St Louis.
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