Bent Bridge

We left St Louis, took a minor detour by accident, but it did get us some grat picutres of the St Louis Gateway Arch, then we saw one end of the Cahin of Rocks bridge, and drove on the new bridge 3 miles to the other side, and walked back across most of it. (It's an old bridge that can't be used for cars anymore, but was part of the route, starting just after the chain of rocks canal and passing over the Mississippi, with a 20/30 degree bend in, and it just a mass of metal, we got some cool pics and it was nice to have a decent walk. this took us to gone 12 and we were on the border of Missouri and Illinois, there was stuff on the bridge to inform us of this. At the next rest area ALana took over the driving until we got to "memory Lane" and 8ft section of the original route, now blocked to traffic but preserved as a monument, it was cool, we then swapped over again and I drove the old (in some place very old) route to chicago, passing through Joliet, sparking off Blues Brothers memories, watching the film with dad, and seeing the tribute with mum and dad at the marlowe, it was awesome, we stopped by an ice cream parlour to take a picture of the jake and elwood they had on their roof and then proceeded into chicago. It was raining alot., by the time we finished the route, then tried to find our motel, we ate, and slept.