Month: April 2021

I am more familiar with the neighborhoods around Soulard Park than other neighborhoods because at one time I lived nearby. Things can change so fast within five years in any large city, but the swings in St Louis are baffling, at least they were to me until I learned more about the recent history of […]

I don’t know whether I’ve seen a happier man than the great uncle who rode to the nursery school of his niece’s young daughter to escort her return from school. Somewhere in North St Louis as we rode, he told how he had moved from Chicago for the express purpose of the care of this […]

When I started driving rideshare, a friend had helped me find a used Hyundai Santa Fe. The exterior and interior were clean, it was easy to maintain, and it had been reasonably inexpensive to purchase so rather than the added expense of a monthly auto payment, the earnings from my small business would be profit […]

A man about 21 years old – when he was riding with me – had been driving the car of a friend, and she, the owner, riding in the front passenger seat. Her passenger side door had been damaged in a previous accident, and had yet to be repaired. As they passed a freight hauling […]

It is now 2021, and although I haven’t written about my experiences driving rideshare with Uber in St Louis, stories of my riders which reshaped my image of St Louis during the last two years I lived there are still easy to remember. A young woman entered my car in the Central West End neighborhood […]