Day 9  Rolla MO to Carlinville Ill
             September 28, 2011

                                          They still fix cars here.

                                          Worlds largest rocking chair

                                          Mural on US 66 Outpost  "Dannys gas hole"

Found our new lawn mower for our grandson to mow our lawn

Restored Phillips gas station in Cuba MO the city of murals

                           The murals are painted on the walls of the towns buildings

The Wagon Wheel Motel is an icon and restored Cuba, MO

                         We saw a lot of this make of car displayed along the route

Bourbon anyone - says it is in the water tower.  Not - there are water towers in every town.  They have the towns name on them and this towns name is Bourbon.

This is the scenery on our route and the leaves are turning

We stopped at Meramec Caverns.  The original owner promoted the cave along 66 by painting the caves name on sides of barns.  The cabin was brought in just for fun.

This is one of the sights we saw.  The cave is huge the tour lasted an hour and half.

A restored Mack truck

These odd buildings are what road maintance keeps what they spread on iced roads in winter.  You find them through out the mid west.

This 66 bridge that spans the Meramec River has been condemed and is scheduled to be torn down:(

This key shaped neon was on display at the visitor center at the above bridge.

These signs lined route 66 as advertisements for Burma-Shave.  There would be like five of them about 500 feet apart with sayings like:  Thirty days.... Hath september.... April, June....and the speed offender....Burma-Shave.

Giant Farmer and son

This place is famous for their custard ice cream

Of course we stopped and had some. YUM!

St Louis MO

I thought these brick houses were cute.  St Louis MO

Couldn't afford a whole car so he just got a trailer shaped one for the bike -not.  It is fun:)

Steam boat on the Mississippi

                                                       The St Louis Arch

We went to the top of the inside of the arch what a hoot!

                                          And quite the view

See the dark rectangles those are the windows to look out at the top of the arch.

Fire on a stick-steel mill

All that is left is the marque

It's a restruant

The ever changing country side

The sun is setting

A nice place to stay the night the Carlin Villa in Carlinville, Ill

We couldn't make the distance to Springfield, Ill as planed.  We had too much fun and spent too much time at the caverns and the arch.

 

This is the gazebo in Carlinville's city square.  This downtown is like in the movie Pollyanna and Back to the Future.  It is late and it has been antoher fun day:)