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Up nice and early this morning and a very nice mild night was wonderful , Gonna miss this weather for a while. Got my coffees and computing done and ready for a nice walkabout, shirt one this morning just because we want to get on the road when the mood strikes us the sooner the better.
I came back and Bella was there to say goodbye. Hope to see her again in the future. Getting ready to go I had to turn in the cable box and there was some one in the office at 7:30. So we ready to hit the road at 7:45 this morning we pulled out.
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Bella came by for a last rub
we will miss her |
Heading toward the Interstate by passing the toll roads taking some very nice back country roads for about an hour, very little traffic.
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| nice back roads |
On I-44 the new route 66 stopped at the Missouri welcome centre , as we always do and always have to take some pictures of it If you have followed us for a while I am sure you have seen this area before. This is where we stopped and made a tasty lunch about 10:30, just because we can and not many nice rest areas along the route.
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| such nice welcome centre |
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| nice picnic areas here too |
Now as we headed east on I-44 my I-phone gave me a message about a very long delay (accident ahead) I-44 was stopped for 20 miles. and suggested we take this alternate route. So we watched the traffic looks like a good route and followed the truckers (that we like to do). A wonderful scenic drive for about 10 miles on the original route 66. Not much traffic yet and we never slowed down. What a nice treat. I use my I phone for routing and plan the routes on google maps, the good thing with this app is it gives me live updates instantly so told us of the accident, and the real bonus is the blue tooth goes right into my hearing aides, really love this technology. And no expensive gps needed.
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| old route 66 very scenic |
Then back onto I-44 and at Pacific Missouri another accident and detour, more of old route 66, Loving this !
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| Not a great driving day but was a good one for us |
Our last detour today was Through Pacific Missouri again off of I44 onto the old route 66 and we spotted all these caves going through town, wondered what they were so did a quick search , Looks like old mining caves. We did not want to stop with the pouring rain but sure would be interesting to check out. You can click a link
HERE if you are interested.
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| lots of cool caves here in Pacific |
Back onto 44 for a bit crossed the Mississippi the took the southern bypass around St. Louis. Have been through there before a few times, seen the arch, but this is a much nicer easy drive .
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| crossing the Mississippi on a rainy day |
Pulled into this Walmart at Collinsville at 3:30 got parked and set up . We decided for supper tonight a pizza, So into Walmart picked a meat pizza and 6 chicken wings. Back home preheat our oven and dressed the pizza the way we love it (loaded) We have all the stuff here so why not. Fresh Mushrooms, onions, more sauce, tomatoes, olives and Jalapeno peppers on my half and extra cheese.
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| that is a hearty pizza |
With 3 wings each we managed to eat 1/2 of this medium pizza. guess we have some more pizza for a lunch or whatever.
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| this sure hit the spot tonight and only $6:50 with lotsa leftovers |
Supper was done and I whipped up a few dishes, got a nice walkabout the parking lot and store. but once again no visible sunset tonight. Now we can kick back and relax for the evening and catch a show on the tube. Nothing on local tv so a dvd works for us.
Thanks for tagging along and hope y'all had a great day as well.
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| 336 miles today |
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