July 31

	Road Scholars July 31 - Aug17, 2011

Headquarters Motel / Orientation - Days 1 & 2

Welcome to On the Road: Following in the Footsteps of Lewis and Clark from Missouri to Oregon. Your group leader, Jenny Peterson, reporting in on this morning of July 31^st. Today, our program begins. Tom Laidlaw, our onboard historian, and I are looking forward to meeting our participants this afternoon and getting this “show on the road”! Our participants hail from Alabama, Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia. With Tom from Washington and Jenny from Minnesota, our group represents 16 states! Looking forward to this wonderful trip! ok
Jenny Peterson, GL

The bus arrived at 1 pm and we proceeded to arrange our supplies, library, audio-visual system, etc. At 4 pm we had orientation in Culpeppers next to the hotel. Here's our driver, Jim, along with Tina, our St. Louis area guide.

Jenny joined me in a little skit about why Lewis felt he needed a co-commander of equal rank.

Jay and Gina's Journal

Ed Shimamoto met us at the airport and took out to lunch in St. Charles at the Lewis & Clark restaurant, and delivered us to our first Motel 8. We had dinner - (?) and introductions at the nearby restaurant, Culpeppers Grill & Bar. It seems like an interesting group