15 posts tagged St Louis Zoo

Originally broadcast 3/23/04: Jim Kirchherr visits the flight cage at the St. Louis Zoo during its renovation in 2004. To celebrate the 100th anniversary of the 1904 World’s Fair, this bird exhibit was redesigned to reflect the Cyprus swamps of Missouri and its native shore birds.

I made a recent trip to the St. Louis Zoo. We came across the hippopotamus exhibit. The hippos were quite active this spring day. They were swimming in circles in their pool. It was quite fascinating. As I watched, I realized this must be what sheep dream about when they try to sleep.

We were is St. Louis earlier this week for a brief visit with family. The weather was mild, much nicer than the heat and humidity during our Summer visits. We found time for a trip to the Zoo. St. Louis’ is one of the world’s best. Peabody enjoyed the trip around the park on the Zooline Railroad, which has been there since I was a kid.

According to the Alton Regional Convention and Visitors Bureau, May 10-18, 2008 is the 25th Anniversary of National Tourism Week. You know what that means — big week for this blog. It just so happens I’ve been doing a lot of thinking lately about tourism in the area — a friend from Chicagoland who

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Family Time These past few days have been crazy around the MODKID household. First, Jon and I drove the kids down to St. Louis late on Wednesday night (3 hrs. one-way), to stay with my sister, my niece and also with my mom who was visiting from FL.

This is the travel journal of two British girls travelling across the great expanse of North America. Spending most of that time on very slow trains… We ran for the train in Chicago and jumped aboard the Texas Eagle just in time. Arrived in St Louis at about 8pm and were greeted by the most desolate Amtrak station so far.

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2007 was an eye opening year. If you’d asked me what a herpetologist was a year earlier, I might have guessed it was an expert on STDs.  But through my communications work with Amphibian Ark, I’ve gotten to know, and admire, amphibian experts from around the world.