Moving Right Along: Day 2 on Route 66

Well, I am making progress on the blog postings. Small baby steps, but at least I see a little hope. I found that the major problems I have experienced are because I have been trying to use my tablet to do the editing.

At first, I thought it was not going to work at all. Now I have downloaded a blogger app and it appears I can make it work. There will be a little delay in catching up, because I haven't been able to post for several days, and frankly, it will take me some time to get used to the tablet app.

While we are on the topic of speakingly, I wanted to show you the first roadside curiosity we encountered this morning. A local guy at the restuarant last night told us we had to go to the old downtown district of Atlanta, Illinois and see the "weiner man". So, of course we drove right over there this morning.

I think in order to continue the description, I'd prefer to call him "frank man". You may notice the he has what may well be the largest "frank" in the world. So large, in fact, that he has to use both hands to hold it! In fact, he has even developed a method of supporting his "frank" using the special "one hand up, one hand down forearm support method". This allows him to hold his huge "frank" and still keep one hand available for other jobs, like shaking hands with any other goliaths that may drop by on their travels up route 66. There are a lot more of these roadside curiosities ahead.

The Atlanta "Weiner Man"

After leaving the Weiner Man we enjoyed learning about the steam powered grain elevators just around the corner. The elevators had been in use until the 1950's and are now another roadside curiosity.

Atlanta Illinois Grain Elevator

From the elevator, we drove to another roadside curiosity, the worlds largest covered wagon.

The wagon is the world's largest, but which is longer?

Next, we drove to an aerospace museum at Logan airport. There was an A7 fighter plane that saw combat in Iraq parked in the parking lot, awaiting restoration. Steve (being an aerospace engineer,) spent quite a while talking shop with the airplane mechanics. They were picking his brain about this aircraft.