The Road to the World's Best Wal-Mart

So we spent the better part of our day sitting in a doctor's office waiting to see a doctor, who informed me that I had a sinus / upper respiratory infection, and prescribed me some several really big pills. They seemed to work, though, and I'm feeling quite a bit better.

First stop after the doctor's office was the Gateway Arch in St. Louis. From there we went west on highway 44 just enough to get out of the suburbs, and then got off onto 66 proper. We stopped at an abandoned gas station to take pictures, then continued on until we hit Cuba, Missouri and decided to stop for the night in a little town a few miles south of there, Steelville.

We also made a short stop at the world's smallest (See pictures) and possibly best Wal-Mart. This being a small town, the employees knew immediately, and just by looking at us, that we weren't from around their town - they asked where we were staying (We hadn't decided yet, and told them this.), suggested that we not sleep on the sidewalks, and offered us some kittens that were running around outside the front doors.

And they closed the store at 9 o'clock. We declined the kittens.

There's been some extraordinarily pretty scenery on this leg of the trip, and it's barely begun. Tomorrow we plan on making it out of Missouri and into Oklahoma.