Route 66 part 1 and memphis detour

So where were we? Ok we have our SUV and we are driving route 66, it seems like forever ago when we started driving. Andy took to the road quite quickly, Illinois' 66 was a nice drive with lots of old road alignment and it was easy to follow as some nice person had put 66 road signs along the way. We bought a tent and camping equipment and spent our first night in our tent with one sleeping bag between us (we read the packaging wrong and thought it was a double). The next night we stayed on basically the side of the road it was terrifying even though it said campsite. A cat shrieking through the night kept us awake, man the cat was loud... I told Andy it could of been some kind of mountain cat!!! I'm not the biggest fan of camping but I am getting better at not being so terrified. After illinois we moved on to the state of Missouri and we visited St Louis, we went up the huge arch and we ate frozen custard. We also drove to Memphis that day, I love Memphis (the nice areas) we went to Graceland SO good for me! Andy not so much as he isn't a big elvis fan! We also went to Beale Street and got plastered, I don't even remember all of the evening but I do remember talking to a lot of people and Andy posing with a friendly cop :) the next day we were so hungover. We were meant to drive back to 66 but we couldn't move so we booked another night and watched tv all day and ordered pizza.

When we joined back on we visited Meramac Caverns, MO if you watched Billy Connellys tv show it was just like that, the cavern at the end of the trip lit up to the national anthem, corny! We stayed on their grounds that night in our tent and it was chilly again, I've been sleeping with a woolly hat on with the sleeping bag over my head!
After leaving Missouri we drove through Kansas and Oklahoma, the sky turned black and few times and we seriously thought that we may run into a tornado! But they were just mini storms. Whilst in Oklahoma we stayed in a cool 66 motel and camped in a state park called red rock, we camped right under a red canyon, pretty cool!

Today we drove from OK to Texas, we were enjoying a bit of TX then the sky went black again, I quickly googled the weather and it was a severe storm weather warning! We decided to book a motel instead of camping and it was good that we did because soon after it started pissing it down, the wind was crazy mad and there was thunder and lightning too! We stopped at the Big Texan motel and restaurant (home of the 72 ounce steak, if you can eat it all under an hour it's free! We didn't try the challenge though) we settled with 18 oz steak and it was gooood! One of my favourite meals so far. Our motel is set up in a row that looks like an old Texan town which has been brightly coloured and there is a massive moo cow statue outside. We went over our budget today but it's worth it, we have saloon doors and shutters in our room! Tomorrow we are going to move on to tucumari but not before visiting some more sights here.

I forgot to mention that if you don't know anything about route 66 it's an old alignment of road that goes from Chicago to Los Angeles which has now been replaced with the interstate. Along the way there are loads of quirky road side attractions, some being giants, old motel signs, murals on walls, lots of museums, antique stores, trading posts and more. my favourite being the blue whale which when 66 was in its hay day it was a swimming attraction, the whale has two slides coming out either side on him and a diving platform off his tail, the whale even has a cap!