Breaking (Sad) News and Brief Trip report

The Breaking News:  sources say La Rive Breton in Leonardtown will go permanently dark Sunday.  Sorry for them, sorry for us.  We’ll all have our own reasons: “I knew they couldn’t last because..”, but it all gets down to numbers, and they apparently didn’t have them for…(insert reason here)

I would suspect given their experience, new buyers might be reluctant to try a “fine dining” venue again.  I’m sure the right people could make it go, we’ll hope so.  Afraid it might sit for a while..

Brief Road Report

Sitting here in St. Louis after two hard days of driving, and experiencing 95 degrees and same humidity.

We’re going over to FOJTE’s house for dinner tonight, which he characterized as “surf and turf’.  Looking forward to that, and if i didn't already say, tomorrow night we’re going to the StoneSoup Cottage, recently named as the best food in St. Louis..

So time is a bit short tonight, I’ll just give you a smattering of sights along the way, same way we always use.. beginning with the Harry (not so) Nice Bridge:

Usual nice Scenery

And as always the Feeder’s fascination/addiction for “interesting” road signs

And I couldn't quite resist the odd juxtaposition of

And finally, at the complete other end of the spectrum, we finally stopped at one of those places we always say “we gotta stop there sometime”: St. Meinrad Archabbey

The property is dominated by the Archabbey church, it's a huge complex housing a seminary and school of theology.  I’ll give a more detailed report later, including the interesting story of St. Meinrad himself,  but it was very impressive inside the church, including this statue of the “Black Madonna”

And not surprisingly they have quite a huge gift shop where i purchased some "authentic" Trappist Ale for which to share with both FOJ's.

Okay time to go get
DFD

or, as one reader suggested for today in STL:

DFTDT&OH (Dress for triple digit temperatures and oppressive humidity)

true, enough

off for lobster and beef..