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Illinois & Indiana Capitols & last Route 66 Stop <\/strong>(for now)<\/h4>\n\n\n
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We bypassed St. Louis, to go where we haven’t been before, but we still got to visit with an old St. Louis work friend of Mark’s. Jim and his wife drove up from southern Illinois to see us in Rochester! After they visited us and Lizzy<\/strong><\/mark><\/em>, we lunched at Motorheads Bar & Grille…good food and<\/span> a Route 66\/Springfield Museum! (their world’s largest Route 66 sign is the “Featured Image”, above.)
New Goal<\/strong>: Drive all of Route 66 by the 100th Anniversary of Route 66<\/a><\/strong> in 2026!<\/p>\n\n\n

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We last saw Jim & Debbie in October, 2016, on our Last X-Country Trip by Prius<\/a>. The “cover photo” for that Adventure Album was in Jim’s garage, with his ’62 Corvette! He and Mark had developed a Corvette Connection<\/em>, so of course we lunched at Motorheads Bar & Grille & Museum, when the opportunity presented itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aside from that reunion, we did a bit of touring in Springfield and Indianapolis (although not as much as last week!) But we did reach a couple of milestones on our retirement goal list.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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1<\/mark><\/strong> new National Park Site<\/mark><\/strong>…now up to #200!!!<\/mark><\/strong> <\/h5>\n\n\n\n