This morning it was off from the beautiful lake and back on US50. We traveled west toward St. Louis and the famous arch and I44.

The traffic in St. Louis was quite heavy and there were 3 highways to keep track of, all going basically different directions from the city. At one place the are 4 lanes that split, all going the same way and place. So it makes no difference if you take the two lanes to the left or two lanes to the right, they all come out the same place. A very strange situation, but the signs do say that all lanes (highways) go to the same place.

Some time after we left St. Louis the phone rang and it was our good friends Carol and Richard. They have been on a 3+ week vacation to the west coast and were on their way to Ozark, MO to eat at Lamberts restaurant, the home of 'throwed rolls'. They were to call us when they were ready to get back on the road and after some quick calculations we decided to meet at exit 88 on I44. We arrived first and found a TA travel plaza and gave them a call. They arrived a few minutes later and we had a nice visit with them. What a nice way to meet good friends way out in the middle of the country both going different directions.
They were on their way home and will be there tomorrow and we are just starting our winter journey to the southwest and warmer weather.

Tomorrow we will be off toward Oklahoma and more interesting country to see.