Route 66 – Day 3

We hopped on the road brightish and sort of early, grabbed a breakfast, then winged off to our first stop. Meramec Caverns near Stanton, Missouri. There was no chance we’d miss them, since there seemed to be a billboard every thirty feet for miles and miles before the exit to the cavern. Oh, and also a barn:

I was expecting a thoroughly cheesy tourist trap. After all, the fellow who started this thing was the inventor of bumper stickers. He would hire kids to take his stickers advertising th...