Travel time and St Louis

Our next stop was "Bo" Wood campground which is a very nice CORPS park. The weather wasn't all that good but we did take a tour of the dam facility and drove thru Shelbyville IL but it was Sunday afternoon and there wasn't much to see or do.
On our way to the CG we had a warning indicating a problem with the exhaust particulate filter. So when we left Bo Wood we went to Decatur IL to an international dealer to have the coach looked at. It turned out to be a fuel delivery problem, meaning fuel filters were restricted. Perhaps we had some bad fuel or the service we had done in April was not correctly done. Anyway after about 4 hours we were on the road and headed to St Louis MO.

We stayed at a very nice county/city CG, 370 Lakeside Park in St Peters just west of SL. We wanted to visit friends from Sun-N-Fun as well as see the Arch. We got it all in as well as a walk thru St Charles where the Journey of Discovery set off from. St Charles, aka St Chuck, which was also the first capitol of MO. The Lewis and Clark visitors center had a nice little display and there were to  be 3 replicas of the boats used. They were not there, they were in Calgary CA to be used in a documentary. While on our walk of St Chuck I did buy a little over a pound fresh fudge.

We did get downtown to see and ride to the top of the arch. In looking for parking I found that every place close was a parking garage so off came the kayaks and bikes. The J bars still hit the floor above but they rotated down enough that they were no problem. We purchased our ride tickets in advance so that made live a little easier. There was a lot of construction around the Arch so we didn't see much more than the arch.
More pictures are here.