Back on the Interstate after a few days of back roads. We just went through a "Diamond Interchange" getting on I44 in Springfield--some kind of traffic engineering marvel, first of its kind in America. I will have to Google it later.
We tried to find the historical marker that marked the Birthplace of Route 66 in Springfield, but the tourist info lady said they moved it and she didn't know where. So much for a piece of true Americana. Most of the original route is gone now anyway, but still. April 30, 1926, right smack in the Roaring 20's, officials proposed the first completely paved transcontinental highway--the "Mother Road"--I wonder if by 2026 we'll think of this as the beginning of the end, the end of the beginning, or just the beginning of the beginning....
Meanwhile, east bound and down....
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