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North America » United States » Missouri » Carthage April 7th 2014

Day 2 of driving and today we are driving from wildwood, St. Louis to Carthage in Missouri. Its around 270 miles. We crossed the stateline from Illinois to Missouri last night before reaching the hotel. We got up pretty early about 7.15am although to be honest so long as we've had a good sleep it doesn't feel too early although I'm sure that will catch up with us at some point. We stayed at the wildwood hotel which was nice and we got complimentary breakfast which was a bonus even if it was help yourself on cardboard plates. We filled up on scrambled eggs, bacon and waffles. The waffles were pretty good as you made your own, well kind of. You filled a cup up of waffle mixture from a machine and poured it into a ... read more
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North America » United States » Missouri » Carthage June 11th 2012

Bernie got a jump start on the shopping when we we arrived yesterday afternoon, purchasing a new pair of Teva sandals when we dropped in to pick up a guide to the shops at the Osage Beach Premium Outlets. This morning we were in Osage Beach specifically to shop! It was just as well too, as our shopping coincided with a pretty intense thunderstorm. Instead of negotiating Route 66 in torrential rain, all we had to worry about was dashing between the shops in the rain!! By about 1.30pm we had pretty much done all of the clothing and footwear shops so we stowed all of our purchases in the Mustang and drove down to Lebanon to pick up Route 66. Our Osage Beach deviation resulted in us missing the section of Route 66 between Waynesville ... read more
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