Kiki and I suddenly left Florida one Saturday night in early November.  I had long been wanting to do it, but with such things sometimes they just happen all of a sudden due to the sudden rising of circumstances.  We did have a destination though when setting out -- Iowa.  To get there it brought us through a few U.S. landmarks that I had never been to before.  One of them was Gateway Arch in St. Louis.  This will be the first post in a series called Westward Bound.