Across the mighty Mississippi

Yahoo - We are now on the Historic Rt 66 YEAAAAAA!!! Today started out damp and cool but we dried off the bikes, put on our foul weather "outfit" and took off for St Louis. The weather actually cleared up by the end of the day so all was good!!! On our ride we passed over the Mississippi, saw the arch, and the Busch Stadium - not bad for a 2 minute ride by - my kind of city Ha!! We then connected with Rt 44 till it hooked up with Rt 66. At first it was crazy trying to follow the road - many U-turns - but then we got into the grove of it. It basically parallels Rt 44, at least in this area. Anyway there was this one stretch that was the original roadway - it looked and felt like a yellowing B&W photo - it was inspiring, humbling, and spiritual. I swear you could feel and almost see spirits of a bygone era WAY COOL!!!! We did about 275 miles and according to GPS we have ONLY 1,455 miles to go UNBELIEVABLE . We are in Lebanon Missouri - Bob just made a drink since Missouri is dry on Sunday. This is why we pack liquor!!! We are still quite excited and are loving the journey. Rt 66 ROCKS!! So Ed asked what a typical day on the road consisted of. Well we do set the alarm to get up at 7:30, sh-t, shower, and shave, have breakfast and hit the road around 9am. We stop around 11 for a break and some water etc, back on the road and stop for lunch and fuel around 1pm. It usually is a 15-20 minute stop and then a quick look at the map and off we go again. At 3 we stop for my coffee fix and possibly some more fuel and then a discussion of how much longer we can go. Inbetween we seem to be in awe at how great the trip is!!! I hear the Pats won without Brady - My heart isn't strong enough for this!!! Thanks for your comments, love reading them. Good luck with the storms out there and smooth pavement ahead. Love Flame and Big Dog - Oh yes a Central Casting sighting = Purple Bette = A 80 something WW!! navy Vet who we met over a cup of coffee somewhere in western Indiana - she was a hot ticket dressed completely in purple, driving a new purple convertible PT cruiser with a purple bow in her hair and told us of her 8 room purple carpeted house What a HOOT!!! The people are the journey.