{"id":232,"date":"2014-08-13T19:31:31","date_gmt":"2014-08-13T23:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rootbeertogo.com\/?p=232"},"modified":"2014-08-25T23:17:05","modified_gmt":"2014-08-26T03:17:05","slug":"the-big-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rootbeertogo.com\/?p=232","title":{"rendered":"The Big River"},"content":{"rendered":"

We started our Wednesday about 9 AM after checking out of the Comfort Inn in Edwardsville, IL. In just a few miles we arrived at the first destination for the day–the Chain of Rocks Bridge across the Mississippi River. We spent over an hour walking across between IL and MO. Took a lot of photos.\u00a0 Below is one of the bridge.<\/p>\n

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After leaving the bridge on the Illinois side, we drove\u00a0 around St. Louis on the Interstate (I-270)\u00a0remarking that is sure looks different than in the winter when last we were in this area.<\/p>\n

On the way around the city, Joyce explored BBQ places on her phone and located one just before we were to get off and continue on the historical Route 66.\u00a0 We exited and drove to Richards BBQ place.\u00a0 Ordered the special for Wednesday–a shredded BBQ sandwich and 2 sides (green beans and mac & cheese)–to go.\u00a0 Then we continued on our way to Times Beach Route 66 Visitor Center (part of the MO state park system).\u00a0 We enjoyed the BBQ on the only picnic table there (thankfully it was in the shade) and then toured the visitor center.\u00a0 About 1:30 we decided to continue on our way.\u00a0 More later!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We started our Wednesday about 9 AM after checking out of the Comfort Inn in Edwardsville, IL. In just a few miles we arrived at the first destination for the day–the Chain of Rocks Bridge across the Mississippi River. We spent over an hour walking across between IL and MO. Took a lot of photos.\u00a0 … Continue reading The Big River<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-route-66"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4GgIT-3K","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rootbeertogo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rootbeertogo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rootbeertogo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rootbeertogo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rootbeertogo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=232"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.rootbeertogo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":335,"href":"https:\/\/www.rootbeertogo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions\/335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rootbeertogo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rootbeertogo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rootbeertogo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}