Day 8: Still on the mends

It’s Saturday, we are still not at 100%. We wanted some soup the hotel only had “Spicy” Ramen - Not good choice given our current condition. About a 4 block walk is a city fast food restaurant called “Snarf’s”. We split a turkey sandwich and had some minestrone soup. Nothing to right home about, but, it was okay.

I walked Donna back to the hotel.

There were several homeless people on the route and their begging for $$ and trying to get into our faces (a bit) does make a person feel very uncomfortable. We got to the hotel with no real issue. We have seen homelessness and poverty all over the world. We continue to struggle with what is our role in helping the poor? If we took all of our investment money, everything we own and gave it to the poor - The poverty issue would not be solved - and we would be poor.

We worked hard to be able to enjoy the luxury of travel. We are enjoying the fruits of our labors, well deserved. I just don’t know where the right balance is.

We did wash some clothes…. There’s an App for that! …. I hadn’t see this before — I had to download the “PayRange” app and then load $25.00 on it. So, I could do a $3.00 load of laundry. I guess we will be ready for the next time. It does make it easier.

After dropping Donna safely off at the hotel, I headed to the Arch. First, I want to get our Arch Tram tickets exchanged for Sunday morning (with no problems), and more important picked up two Jr. Ranger booklets so we could start filling them out and seeing what we needed to do to earn our Jr. Ranger Badges for the Gateway Arch.

Pretty much the rest of the day was low key in the hotel room. We hopes to get to visit the Gateway Arch on Sunday. We are a couple of days behind our initial planned schedule but there is built in wiggle room for this very reason.Read more