{"id":1848,"date":"2010-05-09T14:31:31","date_gmt":"2010-05-09T14:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kosmos.liveflux.net\/blog\/?p=1848"},"modified":"2025-06-21T15:43:50","modified_gmt":"2025-06-21T15:43:50","slug":"lake-st-louis-to-brookfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kosmos.liveflux.net\/blog\/2010\/05\/09\/lake-st-louis-to-brookfield\/","title":{"rendered":"Lake St. Louis to Brookfield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is easy to fall behind real time posting. Sometimes we do not have good Internet, but usually after a long day of driving, we are just too tired to sort through pictures and do a post. Here are 4 days in one post.<\/p>\n<p><em>Friday, April 30, 2010: Day 7: Lake St. Louis, Missouri to Dayton, Ohio<br \/>\nVia: I70<br \/>\nTotal miles for the entire trip was 2430 at the end of the day. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Adding 2 containers of fuel before leaving the Hocker&#8217;s house:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/IMG_1663-Small.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1663-Small.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Visit to the arch in St. Louis, Missouri:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/DSC02823-Small.jpg\" alt=\"DSC02823-Small.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>View from the top of the arch:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/DSC02873-Small.jpg\" alt=\"DSC02873-Small.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Covered bridge in Greenup, Illinois: <!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/IMG_1741-Small.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1741-Small.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Stopped for the night at a Best Western in Dayton, Ohio.<\/p>\n<p><em>Saturday, May 1: Day 8: Dayton, Ohio to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania<br \/>\nVia: I70 &amp;<br \/>\nTotal miles for the day: 454<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This was pretty much a driving only day with no sightseeing stops<\/p>\n<p>Adding 2 containers of fuel in the rain (we were under cover):<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/IMG_1769-Small.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1769-Small.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Stopped for lunch in the historic town of Zanesville, Ohio:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/IMG_1830-Small.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1830-Small.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Stopped for the night at a Best Western in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p><em>Sunday, May 2: Day 9: Harrisburg, Pennsylvania to Brookfield, Connecticut<br \/>\nTotal miles for the day: 286<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We added 2 containers of fuel, but the photos didn&#8217;t come out.<\/p>\n<p>Scenic drive through the Amish country:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/IMG_1955-Small.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1955-Small.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Lunch with <a href=\"https:\/\/kosmos.liveflux.net\/blog\/2008\/04\/09\/moving-from-ao-chalong-to-nai-harn\/\">Mike<\/a> and Teresa in Elmwood, New Jersey:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/IMG_2033-Small.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_2033-Small.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Visit with the Rodrigues family in Brookfield, Connecticut:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/IMG_2091-Small.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_2091-Small.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Monday, May 3: Day 10: Day of rest.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We were ready for a day off to do nothing at all. We stayed in Brookfield and had a lovely visit with the Rodrigues&#8217; family.<\/p>\n<p><em>This is Part 9 of the Passage Across America series. Read\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/kosmos.liveflux.net\/blog\/2010\/05\/06\/joplin-to-st-louis\/\">Part 8 here\u00a0<\/a>and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/kosmos.liveflux.net\/blog\/2010\/05\/10\/brookfield-to-kennebunk\/\">Part 10 here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is easy to fall behind real time posting. Sometimes we do not have good Internet, but usually after a long day of driving, we are just too tired to sort through pictures and do a post. Here are 4 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kosmos.liveflux.net\/blog\/2010\/05\/09\/lake-st-louis-to-brookfield\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[411,409,407,412,408,410,397],"tags":[250,253,254,243,248,251,246,244,133,252,245,247,241,242,249],"class_list":["post-1848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-connecticut","category-illinois","category-missouri","category-new-jersey","category-ohio","category-pennsylvania","category-united-states","tag-amish-country","tag-brookfield","tag-connecticut","tag-covered-bridge","tag-dayton","tag-elmwood","tag-harrisburg","tag-illinois","tag-missouri","tag-new-jersey","tag-ohio","tag-pennsylvania","tag-st-louis","tag-st-louis-arch","tag-zanesville"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosmos.liveflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosmos.liveflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosmos.liveflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosmos.liveflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosmos.liveflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1848"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/kosmos.liveflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13268,"href":"https:\/\/kosmos.liveflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1848\/revisions\/13268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosmos.liveflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosmos.liveflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosmos.liveflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}