We were back on the road today. We left Fitzgerrell State Park near Ida, Illinois, and continued west on I-64. The weather was quite bizarre; the air temperature was in the mid-80s but it was raining pretty hard most of the way. The roadside crops looked very happy and damp. We finally drove out from under the stifling cloud cover when we approached St. Louis. It quit the drenching rain but the temperature and humidity were still brutal. Opening a truck window was like sticking your head into an autoclave.
We turned off I-64 onto I-255 and headed southwest toward Arnold, MO. We crossed the mighty Mississippi. It was mighty brown. Drinking from this river may be problematic. We tried to get a picture of the famous St. Louis Arch but the road surface on 255 was so cratered we couldn’t get the landmark to stay in the viewfinder. We will go give it a leer maybe tomorrow.
In Arnold we pulled off into the Covered Bridge RV Park. It is right next to a highway that we hope doesn’t have a lot of nocturnal truck traffic. The individual spaces in the park are quite large, they have full utility hookups, there is cable TV, a laundry and their wifi is a zinger compared to that which we have recently had. There is a herd of American goldfinches here and they are gorgeous. Should be called yellowfinches, though.