I made it back to the Gateway.

The first time I visited the Gateway to the West was in 1986 or so when Mark Miller and I drove back from Mardi Gra. We were going through St. Louis and I insisted we stop. We did. We touched the arch around 10:30 at night. We were there for about twenty minutes. We go it on audio tape.

The good folks at MLNC offered me the opportunity to give a tele-conference presentation on the topic of open source software to interested librarians. The night before I was treated to dinner on The Hill, we ate ice cream at Ted Drewes, and the next morning I bought donuts from the Donut Drive-in. Heck I even got to play some disc golf! The presentation went well, and on the way out town I stopped at the Gateway, again, for twenty or thirty minutes. Only this time I got to see it in the day light.