On Sunday morning, we joined Tim and Colleen at their Church, New Life Community Church. The Pastor, Al Garcia, gave an excellent message from Matthew 5 (Sermon on the Mount) about Jesus as a "revolutionary" in condemning sins of the heart, compared to the Pharisees and scribes who only looked at the external.
By the time we had lunch with them and said our goodbyes, it was after 3:00pm, so we had a lot of miles to drive in not a lot of time!
Entering downtown Chicago was fun with all the traffic; this was compounded by the Taste of Chicago event which drew tens of thousands of people to within blocks of where we needed to be!
Finally we reached the "official" starting point of Route 66, the corner of Michigan Avenue and Adams Street. (Historically, the start was at the corner of Lake Shore Drive and Jackson Avenue, but the streets were made one way and the start point westbound moved.)
What a change in scenery during the afternoon, as we went from city streets and skyscrapers, to older city neighborhoods, to suburbs, to small towns and rural landscapes in central Illinois.
We loved the "tacky" roadside stuff, like the Gemini Giant at the Launching Pad Drive-In in Wilmington IL. There were also beautifully restored old service stations like the Texaco and Standard Oil stations in Dwight IL.
Due to time constraints, we did not get to visit Lincoln's home and gravesite in Springfield IL, but hope to catch it on the return trip. We were very late arriving at our KOA Kampground in Eureka MO (just west of St. Louis), but we had a wonderful day of driving and sightseeing.
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