«This is Bill’s final column» out of countless ones he wrote over 71 years for the Falls City Journal. With this column, he said farewell; the Journal has been sold and moved to a much smaller space in downtown Falls City which it had occupied until 1950. It’s all extremely symbolic of the state of...
This is kind of like how I feel about my (possibly four) upcoming surgeries: I don’t want to do this, but I have to, and I hate it. Received a kind e-mail yesterday telling me of the death of Bill Schock of Falls City, NE, on Thursday evening, six weeks short of his 100th birthday....
The Arch from the Martin Luther King Jr. Bridge on the way out of Missouri. Posted by Steve Pollock on Monday, August 8, 2016
8 am:Homeward bound! Bye bye Arch! Posted by Steve Pollock on Monday, August 8, 2016
Lying on the bed looking out. Thinking Nashville needs one of them things. Maybe a 700-foot gee-tar? Or an obelisk made of records and people's broken dreams? Posted by Steve Pollock on Sunday, August 7, 2016
Nighttime Arch. Still shimmery. Posted by Steve Pollock on Sunday, August 7, 2016
I almost stayed at Casino Queen across the river since there were good reviews. Until I found out a room was more… Posted by Steve Pollock on Sunday, August 7, 2016
The purplish plume over in Illinois is a giant water fountain near the Casino Queen. Posted by Steve Pollock on Sunday, August 7, 2016
In some hotel around here, some kid is crying (him/her)self to sleep. Posted by Steve Pollock on Sunday, August 7, 2016
The Arch is shimmering in the last light of the sun. Posted by Steve Pollock on Sunday, August 7, 2016
Dinner has to be close because … drunken Cards fans. So Red Kitchen in the Hyatt lobby it is. Posted by Steve Pollock on Sunday, August 7, 2016
Over the construction site and through the gate lies home. 333 miles away. Posted by Steve Pollock on Sunday, August 7, 2016
Are they on a three-hour tour? Will they get shipwrecked in Illinois? Am I feeling all Mark Twain-y and wanting to pilot a riverboat up to Hannibal? Posted by Steve Pollock on Sunday, August 7, 2016
The intersection I took thirty minutes to get through? A half-hour later, two cars. Oy. Posted by Steve Pollock on Sunday, August 7, 2016
Feel guilty about treating myself, but Hyatt gave me an eighth floor corner room with windows on two sides. Maybe I'll just stay here. Posted by Steve Pollock on Sunday, August 7, 2016 [Best part: Our credit card travel miles made it a free stay. Woot.]
So close, yet so far. Hope the Cards lost 59-0. Posted by Steve Pollock on Sunday, August 7, 2016
Got caught in after-game traffic at Busch Stadium downtown;30 minutes to go three blocks. Posted by Steve Pollock on Sunday, August 7, 2016
Found a DQ in Bowling Green! Now on to St. Louis, a little over an hour away! Posted by Steve Pollock on Sunday, August 7, 2016
I seem to be lost and headed for New Orleans AND Juarez. Posted by Steve Pollock on Sunday, August 7, 2016
Frank didn't tell me he's running for governor of Missouri. I might be like Bill Clinton, First Gentleman of Missouri! (I think this road trip is making me a little loopy.) Posted by Steve Pollock on Sunday, August 7, 2016
I found four Pokemons. What'll I get for 'em? They're not Pokemons? No? Shoot. Posted by Steve Pollock on Sunday, August 7, 2016
Finally, some excitement! A train! (US 36 in northern Missouri is great and immensely less stressful thab the hellish I70 bryween KC and Stl… at the price of great boredom.) Posted by Steve Pollock on Sunday, August 7, 2016
The corn around here is higher than this elephant's eye. Posted by Steve Pollock on Sunday, August 7, 2016
Mound City, MO. First person I see, the hotel desk clerk, used to live in … Nashville, TN. Maybe I'm homesick. Posted by Steve Pollock on Friday, August 5, 2016
Hello Kansas City! Stopped for lunch … 66 miles to go today. I-70 between St. Louis and Kansas City: Pure Hell. Posted by Steve Pollock on Friday, August 5, 2016
Rainy start to Day Two, but it's clearing up. On to Mound City. The big day is tomorrow in Falls City! Posted by Steve Pollock on Friday, August 5, 2016