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Day 2 – Our Honeymoon on Route 66 – June 15, 2002: Fenton, Missouri to Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Saturday, June 15 brought a long stretch of driving on our honeymoon journey along Route 66. Unfortunately, much of the day required traveling on Interstate 44 through Missouri so we could reach Oklahoma at a reasonable time. Both of us had already driven Route 66 through Missouri—individually and together during our April 2001 trip—but it still pained us to be on the Interstate. We really didn’t like “shunning” the Mother Road! Whenever we could, we jumped back onto Route 66. Breakfast in Pacific, Missouri Our first stop of the morning was Pacific, Missouri, where we exited at I-44 Exit 261 to visit Monroe’s Route 66 Diner. The diner is housed…
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Day 1 – Our Honeymoon on Route 66 – June 14, 2002
Speedway, Indiana to Fenton, Missouri Our honeymoon road trip actually began three months before our wedding. We weren’t married until September 14, 2002, but Jennifer had just moved to Speedway from the Chicagoland area and wouldn’t have any vacation time at her new job by the time the wedding arrived. So we decided to take our honeymoon early. Since we’re both road warriors at heart—and our shared fascination with the lore of Route 66 is actually how we met—it felt only natural to plan our honeymoon along America’s most famous highway. As luck would have it, Indipala SS, an Impala SS club in Indianapolis that Pat belonged to, was planning…