Route 66 The Mother Road.....

Here we are at the Route 66 Museum. They have this cool mural painted on the back of the building and you can drive your car up there and take a pic.... Very Cool! We had an easy drive today and all met up at an old gas station owned by Phil Becker and his wife. they were there with Steve Hayes and his wife Gisella (sorry if I spelled that wrong). We all went to the Route 66 diner and had a great lunch, Thanks Phil that was so nice of you!
We then headed to the museum, hitting a few sections of the original Mother Road... After the museum we headed to Springfield IL and had a great dinner and Frozen custard for dessert. Yummy!
Tomorrow we are off to see "Lincoln Stuff" and then are heading to St. Louis, hopefully hitting more sections of Route 66. It's really cool to ride on the first road that went across the US.
Ter :o)

Gary....... Ugh.....rain. It apparently rained during the night with thunder and lightning but I slept through it. After a quick breakfast I went out and rolled up the wet car cover during a sprinkle and put it in the back of the car on a couple towels. By the time we left the rain had stopped and we headed for US 55 which has bits and pieces of Old Rt. 66 intertwined with it. The first section of 66 was rather boring with strip malls and road repairs but became very obvious why the old highway was bypassed.

We tried another stretch of Rt. 66 from Gardner to Dwight, a very nice two-lane highway ending in down town Dwight. As Terry said we were treated to a very nice lunch at a local diner and then returned to Phil's gas station for some more yakkin' and picture taking. We said our goodby's and hit Old Rt.66 again to Pontiac. 66 is pretty bad between Pontiac and Springfield so we stayed on US 55 for the remainder of the day's drive. The only driving problem is gusting cross winds and with tall cars it makes for exciting driving.

Tomorrow we're off to a new Abraham Lincoln museum and then lunch at Cozy Dog, where the corn dog was invented ending up in St Louis where bad weather awaits us.