The first stop was a huge hunting and fishing store, Bass Pro, in Springfield, Missouri where we spent close to 2 hours and didn’t manage to see it all! They had a very interesting firearm museum there (with the balustrade leading to it made of rifles). Next destination was the…

This day was definitely a day of up and down and paralel roads. The roads that we drove passed through beautiful country. We crossed Piney Creek (peaceful, lots of canoes), took Hooker Cut, the deepest cut by the original road, with the two lanes still in local use today, to…

We first drove to Times Beach visitors centre and Meramec River Bridge. There is an interesting story – Times Beach newspaper sold land in this area in 1925 to develop a community of holiday houses (people could buy land for just $67.50 with a 6 month subscription). It ended up…

We came across a section around Auburn where the old road structure of red bricks is still visible, making one wonder at the amount of time and effort spent to build miles and miles of road. We drove through corn country today – green around us as far as the…