Reading Time: < 1 minute Drove along the “Great River Road” from Alton to Grafton yesterday, the Missisipi River and the changing colors on the mountains looks great. No wonder there are so many people in the bars and grills at the town of Grafton. I also saw people with boats enjoying the water before the winter chill – this is probally
Reading Time: < 1 minute That’s 3 years in a row. Quite impressive, isn’t it? Interestingly, it seems they are not the favorites (for world series) among commentators. Some even said they are a two men team (Carpenter, Pujos). Let’s see how they do. The series with San Diego Padres starts on Tuesday Oct 3rd. I tried to put a
Reading Time: < 1 minute Went to Creve Coeur Lake Park today. This is my roller blading (skating) place. The trees are changing colors these days and the view is very beautiful. Sometimes we travel long ways to famous places like Yosemite (in California), but in my mind we can enjoy similar things (in smaller scales) near our home: Creve Coeur
Reading Time: < 1 minute I understand search is very important functions for blog. There are three ways to search this blog; they are all at the right Side Bar. 1) WordPress Search: available at side bar (top right), a “word search” on all the posts, matched results will be shown on one page. 2) Google search: available at side bar, footer, and each post,
Reading Time: 2 minutes Buying a house is probablly the biggest investment most people make during their life time. In past few years, as I was looking for my first house, and accompanying my friends for their house hunting, I have seen lots of houses in St. Louis area. The price ranged from 100 K to 800 K; the
Reading Time: < 1 minute I like ice cream. The one I liked most is not hagen daz, it’s a little known place called Ted Drewes. If you do a google search on “st. louis frozen custard”, it will show up on the top. It’s located at Chippewa, very close to my old apartment. This is a very popular place in St. Louis. In the
Reading Time: 2 minutes The following was written on July 19, 11PM. This evening we had a big storm here in St. Louis. When I walked out of the door at the TKD place at Woodson plaza, the sky was full of black clouds and the wind is blowing hard. I hesitated for a minute and decided to drive
Reading Time: < 1 minute The gas price hang around at $3.00 for a few days now. The temporature is even hotter, it’s more than 100 F. Looks like it stay at 100 for a few days. Maybe we all drive too much and emit too much CO2 from our cars?
Reading Time: < 1 minute The gas price is creeping up again. This weekend the regular unlead costs about $3.00 here in St. Louis. Last time it broke the $3 barrier is post Katrina. It seems siutation is not going to improve in the near future due to geopolitical reasons (Iran, North Korea), more importantly, the supply and demand trend.
Reading Time: < 1 minute MUNY is probablly one of the best kept secrets in St. Louis. Not sure the full name of MUNY, but it is America’s oldest and largest outdoor musical theater. It’s located in the Forest Park. Besides great musical shows, it has another nice feature: it reserves the last a few rows of seats for public
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