Tuesday morning and we wake up around 6am, we're getting there! We decided to look at our route today whilst enjoying the comfort of the huge luxury bed and discover the journey to Springfield, Missouri is around 200 miles... 100 less than yesterday so we figured around 6-8 hours driving time. With that in mind we visited the gym for a half an hour work out, had a delicious breakfast then headed into downtown St Louis. Stepping out the hotel I realised the tempe...

So, where do I start? Today was the first day of our mammoth 4,000 mile road trip and we decided to start with one of our longest driving days. We like to jump in at the deep end! We picked the car up (Sandy, short for Sandra, some sort of Chrysler, she's white, has air con and our luggage fits in the boot...all the important things you need to know) from the loop, the equivalent of the west end, and had to battle with driving on the wrong side of the road, in th...