On Tuesday11th we set off early and had breakfast at Stacey's Route 66 Café in Litchfield Ill, famous for it's pastries and cakes. Farmersville, Edwardsville and "the largest rocking chair in the world", followed by Collinsville and "the largest ketchup bottle in the world". Really?
We visited the Cahokia Mounds Historical State Park( a world heritage site) with a museum about the history of the Native Americans who settled in the area around AD1200. Crossing the Mississippi River we entered Missouri, the 2nd state through which Route 66 traverses. We drove through St. Louis and on to Eureka and Staunton. Cuba, Mo. is known for it's wall murals and in Fanning we discovered another giant rocking chair! Rolla, Doolittle and Lebanon, where we stayed overnight at the Munger Moss Motel. They recommended T's Redneck Steakhouse and Distillery for a dinner of BBQ ribs and moonshine.
On Wednesday we headed on to Springfield,Mo. and visited the Bass Pro Shop headquarters. Is it a sports store or a theme park? In Phelps, Mo. we met another Route 66 icon, Gary Turner, who shows you around his "museum" in person and waylays you for ages with Route 66 stories and recommendations. Next stop was Red Oak II, a truly bizarre "town" where the owner has relocated buildings from nearby towns to his farm to create a 1950's village complete with a collection of old cars. The only trouble was, no one seemed to be visiting the place besides us. A few of the houses were actually inhabited, so we felt like we were snooping around in someones back yard. In Carthage we stopped at the Route 66 Drive In.
Route 66 then enters Kansas, but not for long. We stopped in Galena to check out the display of old jalopies decorated like the cars from the movie "Cars" and before we knew it we were in Oklahoma. We found very friendly tourist information staff who kindly opened up the Coleman Theatre, a vaudeville style theatre built in 1929, to show us around and play us a tune or two on the famous old Wurlitzer Theatre Organ. In Catoosa we visited the Blue Whale and then we spent the night at the Dessert Hills Motel in Tulsa, Oklahoma. We needed a change from burgers and fried food, so we asked the Indian proprietor to recommend a restaurant and ended up driving half way across town to the India Palace for Kormas,Koftas, Lassis and Samoosas.
We visited the Cahokia Mounds Historical State Park( a world heritage site) with a museum about the history of the Native Americans who settled in the area around AD1200. Crossing the Mississippi River we entered Missouri, the 2nd state through which Route 66 traverses. We drove through St. Louis and on to Eureka and Staunton. Cuba, Mo. is known for it's wall murals and in Fanning we discovered another giant rocking chair! Rolla, Doolittle and Lebanon, where we stayed overnight at the Munger Moss Motel. They recommended T's Redneck Steakhouse and Distillery for a dinner of BBQ ribs and moonshine.
On Wednesday we headed on to Springfield,Mo. and visited the Bass Pro Shop headquarters. Is it a sports store or a theme park? In Phelps, Mo. we met another Route 66 icon, Gary Turner, who shows you around his "museum" in person and waylays you for ages with Route 66 stories and recommendations. Next stop was Red Oak II, a truly bizarre "town" where the owner has relocated buildings from nearby towns to his farm to create a 1950's village complete with a collection of old cars. The only trouble was, no one seemed to be visiting the place besides us. A few of the houses were actually inhabited, so we felt like we were snooping around in someones back yard. In Carthage we stopped at the Route 66 Drive In.
Route 66 then enters Kansas, but not for long. We stopped in Galena to check out the display of old jalopies decorated like the cars from the movie "Cars" and before we knew it we were in Oklahoma. We found very friendly tourist information staff who kindly opened up the Coleman Theatre, a vaudeville style theatre built in 1929, to show us around and play us a tune or two on the famous old Wurlitzer Theatre Organ. In Catoosa we visited the Blue Whale and then we spent the night at the Dessert Hills Motel in Tulsa, Oklahoma. We needed a change from burgers and fried food, so we asked the Indian proprietor to recommend a restaurant and ended up driving half way across town to the India Palace for Kormas,Koftas, Lassis and Samoosas.
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