We started the day by heading into Springfield to see the Lauterbach giant, placed outside a tire shop on Wabash Avenue. Picture opportunities were fairly difficult as it was so close to the road. Plus we looked like we were in full tourist mode, which seems to have been happening more and more often. But then again, I suppose we are tourists. After that, we went back to the Cozy Dog Drive In for lunch, Marie had another corn dog and I decided to have a hot dog a...

Today, we woke up in the Historic Route 66 KOA camp and the showers were horrendous, like a leaky gutter. But after we were ready, we went to McDonald's to sponge off the wifi and accidentally bought lunch, I forget how many McDonald's we have had already. We FaceTimed home from the car park and then set off for central St. Louis. We were heading for the Gateway Arch, 630 feet high and the tallest monument in the States. Seeing it up close was the only way to jus...

After seeing some of the old Route 66 and it's landmarks we decided to carry on on the trail, this took us to the Cozy Dog Diner to start with, the home of the Cozy Dog. Which is essentially a battered hot dog on a stick, but the little diner had lots of trinkets and items for sale all dedicated to Route 66. The food was great, Marie actually had the Cozy Dog, whereas I just had a chilli dog. The place was so busy when we were there, so we got a couple of souveni...