All 4-Lane from Here
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Day 29: August 24, 2014 All 4-Lane from Here Comment via blog |
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Just across the recently repaired and reopened Devil's Elbow Bridge is the
not yet opened for the day world famous Elbow Inn. Then shaded
two-lane leads to Hooker Cut and a rare stretch of divided four-lane
with molded in half-curbs that was once US-66.
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Maybe someone actually once kept things trimmed around here or maybe it's
just that there are less visiting feet stomping on the foliage but,
whatever the reason, John's Modern Cabins are becoming overgrown in
addition to slowly collapsing.
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I stopped at this half-scale partial Stonehenge recreation in Rolla,
Missouri, in 2003. I stopped again today simply because it seemed the
right thing to do after stopping at the
recreation in Texas earlier in
the trip.
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I moved onto I-44 at Rolla, Missouri and I'd already decided that I would
be taking a more or less direct expressway based path home from Saint
Louis. But I had one more Route 66 related stop on the agenda. At Kirkwood,
I exited onto Watson Road (a.k.a. Old Route 66) and stayed with it until
it changed into Chippewa and led me to Ted Drewes Frozen Custard.
With a coconut concrete under (mostly) my belt, I picked up I-44 at the nearest entrance with the idea that it would be all expressway from here on. However, traffic backup at the I-55 bridge prompted me to slip off to a surface street and cross the Mississippi on the 1874 Eads Bridge then rejoin I-55 in Illinois. From there, it really was all expressway to Cincinnati with an uneventful overnight in Effingham, Illinois. |
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