St. Louis

Tim eating Buffalo jerky in front of a stuffed Buffalo.

Creepy bionic buffalo solider still alive some 150 years after most real humans die.

Pullin' into St. Louis.

Seven guys, one pod, no problem.

The Gateway Arch

St. Louis from the top of the Arch.

Gabe can't believe how far up he is.

Head Wooper: Surround someone while they are humming really low then buz noises right next to their ears and face. The person in the middle will experience an outer body experience, just ask Nick.

St. Louis has this big arch in it that towers over the city. You can go inside and take elevator pods to the top. The person in charge of assigning pods told us we could either split into two or three small groups or stay together and break the record for the number of people they've ever had in one pod. We took the latter option and successfully crammed seven, un-showered, sweaty guys into a pod made to sit four. When we got to the top we all tried to get out at once which resulted in a huge pile of guys falling into the walkway in front of a large crowd of tourists. On the way back down we closed our eyes and laid on each other with our mouths open to pretend like we had suffocated. People walked by with looks of horror until we, on cue, started beat boxing and singing, bump'n' our pod with grooves.

BIG THANKS TO: Jenny and the workers at Sun Decker's. They let us park our bus right outside their bar, use their kitchen for water and washing dishes, and even gave us a little back ground on St. Louis. There was a riverside casino floating on the Mississippi right behind our parking spot. Jenny told us we could go fish right next to it if we wanted to catch a tree or a dead body, but finding any three feet catfish would take a trip out halfway across the river.