By Jack Corbett
Sorry, I never got around to getting this one done. Instead, I moved to Thailand. In all deference to the St. Louis Zoo, no zoo in the United States can begin to match Thailand's Khao Kheow Zoo. The United States has just gotten to be too protective, liability conscious and run by the lawyers to be fun anymore. Want to ride elephants, come to Thailand because someone's suing the elephant he falls off of in the United States. Want to feed a rhinoceros? Come to Khao Kheow Zoo where there will only be a five foot high fence between you and the beast's monstrous horn. A hippopotamus? There's a slightly bigger fence between you and the hippo than there was separating you from the Rhino simply because the hippo is the more dangerous of the two. Want to feed crocodiles by dangling a whole chicken above them from a bamboo pole? No can do in the U.S. because the rangers are afraid you will fall in. The United States just simply forgot what life's all about. I'll take Fun City here in Pattaya any day. Hey, this zoo is so big they'll even rent you a golf cart to get you around.
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The Art Museum The Zoo The Planetarium The Science Center The Jewel Box The Missouri History Museum Meet me in St Louis, the 1904 World's Fair Back to Forest Park |
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Jack Corbett's Ten Wonders of St Louis The St Louis Arch and the old Courthouse |
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