On The Road - Day 3

   Today was great! We spent much of the day driving across Missouri and what a hoot it was. First, we crossed the Mississippi River and were greeted by the Gateway Arch in St. Louis:

  Then we started scanning our Atlas Obscura app for weird and wonderful sights. Of course, what would a trip be without the world's second largest rocking chair?

  As you can see, we were in the vicinity of the famous Route 66 for much of the day and that seems to attract a lot of curiosities. One particular spot seemed to have more than its share of such curiosities, a small spot curiously named Uranus. You won't find it on any map since it doesn't exist, being a small plot of land in an unincorporated area. It is, though, worth a visit as we found out.

  For example, I give you the World's Largest Belt Buckle, authenticated by Guiness:

  

  Then, because it's Uranus...

... you get the picture. Laughs aplenty were had, for sure.

  We completed our tour of Missourian oddities in Springfield where we found the World's Largest Fork. My kids will get this:

... and for our granddaughter Zoey, from the Kraft factory:

  That was it for Missouri. The next four hours in Oklahoma were boring. No World's Largest Anythings. No laughs. Just a long, straight, boring highway all the way to Oklahoma City where we're spending the night. Tomorrow we're off to Santa Fe, NM. If we find anything interesting in the rest of Oklahoma you'll be the first to know!