I drove a stick shift from St Louis through Colorado, Vegas, on to San Fran and up towards Oregon, back through Yellowstone, on to Gettysburg and then Ottawa until leaving the car in the airport in Toronto with the keys on the wheel for my brother's sister-in-law to collect. A little Chevy Sprint. Got used to the awkward positioning of gears and driver's seat by the time we got to Ottawa. Trying to get onto the freeway in Vegas nearly killed us, just close the eyes and hit the accelerator. Nought to fifty in about fifteen minutes!
Not being a USAian, I tried to work out (on google maps) how long that would take ... but the map stubbornly refused to tell me
which St Louis you mean.

It shifted between St Louis (Missouri), St Louis (Michigan), and -- amusingly -- St Louis Park (Minnesota), St. Louis Lambert International Airport (also Missouri), and Saint-Louis-de-Blandford (Quebec).
Now ... I may only be a "darn'd old furriner" (

), but even I know that if you start in Missouri or Michigan ... much less Quebec ... it's a heck of a commute to get to Colorado or Vegas, much less San Fran. That's on the other side of the country.
Then I asked google maps for St Louis,
California ... and that made a tiny bit more sense.

Still, if you started in CA ... why would you go to Colorado and Vegas, then double back to San Fran, and
then go back to Oregon? *shrug*
But if you start from St Louis, Missouri (the famous one) ... that'd mean crossing almost the entire continent to San Fran, and then going all the way back across the continent to Toronto.
I'm confused. America has too many St Louises and Saint Louises and San Luises ...
