{"id":8912,"date":"2021-04-08T22:31:35","date_gmt":"2021-04-09T05:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/?p=8912"},"modified":"2021-04-09T15:08:27","modified_gmt":"2021-04-09T22:08:27","slug":"route-66-day-1-from-big-g-to-kc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/2021\/04\/08\/route-66-day-1-from-big-g-to-kc\/","title":{"rendered":"Route 66 Day 1: From Big G to KC"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

“The journey of 2,000 miles begins with a single tiny roadster,” I think the old saying goes. 😌 Whatever the case, after getting Miata fully spiffed & packed, Henry and I set out on our epic journey on Wednesday, March 24.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Besides being an excellent wingman, Hen’s also a great documenter of our travels, both via camera & the written word. You can check out the gallery<\/a> of shots we took together, and as for narrative, I’ll pass the mic to Hen, as captured in the little leather-bound notebook we picked up at our first stop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“We drove to Le Claire, Iowa, and visited the American Pickers store. We bought some typeform and stickers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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I (Henry) was observing silos on the way to Iowa 80, the world’s largest truck stop. I had an amazing DQ milkshake, with ice cream, brownies, and Oreos, too! Iowa 80 had the absolute coolest truck museum ever!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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I saw some interesting truckloads there, such as a trailer carrying four teardrop trailers, two trucks with half-assembled combines, trucks carrying parts of silos, and… TWO HUGE TRUCKS CARRYING WIND TURBINE BLADES!<\/em> We drove across four states in seven hours.<\/p>

Also, we ate Kansas City BBQ at Joe’s Gas Station with Maria.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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“The journey of 2,000 miles begins with a single tiny roadster,” I think the old saying goes. 😌 Whatever the case, after getting Miata fully spiffed & packed, Henry and I set out on our epic journey on Wednesday, March 24. Besides being an excellent wingman, Hen’s also a great documenter of our travels, both […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos","category-route-66"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8912"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8925,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8912\/revisions\/8925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}