| If you prefer a more classical menu, Click here |
Since people who live in Saint Louis have never been to these
places, one cannot expect visitors to know about them, and yet, that's
the surprising thing.
Take Cahokia Mounds, for instance.
During the day one will find people from all over the world studying
what remains of the great civilization that flourished here one thousand
years ago. But you will very seldom find anyone from Saint Louis
here.
And although there might be a quarter of a million people clogging up the Saint Louis
waterfront watching the fourth of July fireworks, just ten miles
away there are just several hundred people on top of Monks Mound
enjoying an unsurpassed display of the fireworks but without the traffic
jams afterwards. Truth is, people rarely see or appreciate
the so many outstanding things staring them right in the face.
Most St. Louisans are not even aware that the best night life in the area is on the Illinois side of the river.
Or that some of the most spectacular
and extensive bicycle trails can be found over on the Illinois side.
Most have never been to Shaw's Botanical Gardens considered by many to
be one of the top five in the world. Or that Washington University
really is one of the top universities in the entire country, that the
largest beer company in the world is based in St. Louis and that the
tours here are free.
Union Station, which is now a classy
shopping mall, was once the busiest train station in the world and
Forest Park once hosted the 1904 Saint Louis World's Fair, an event so
gigantic and magnificent that it exponentially eclipsed anything
like it today.
Hopefully both long term St. Louis residents and
tourists alike coming to my web site will experience a few St. Louis
area gems they were never aware of before.
If you like guns this just might be the book for you.
|
|
