A quick 100 mile blast up the I-55 North and we arrived in St Louis at the Hampton Inn Downtown at The Gateway Arch just a couple of blocks from where we stayed on our 2010 Route 66 road trip. As an added bonus we were met in the bar by Chris and Tracey's friend from their 2015 Sturgis trip, Bill Bone, who joined us for a drink and then accompanied us to the National Blues Museum for the afternoon. Another great museum - the Americans do these things so well.
After Bill took his leave we had a stroll down to the Gateway Arch itself which is temporarily closed whilst building work is carried out at its base (luckily we travelled to the top of it last time we were here).
We were given a recommendation to eat at the Sugar Fire Smokehouse next door to the National Blues Museum which was handy as we returned to the museum itself for its "Howlin' Friday" live music performance and saw the Jeremiah Johnson Band perform three sets between 7pm and 10pm. Check them out on You Tube: Mind Reader , Southern Drawl and Skip That Stone were just some of the many excellent songs that they performed.
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