ROUTE 66 RAMBLE, PART 3 Show me “MO” of Missouri

South of Edwardsville, Illinois, in search of the turnoff for Chain of Rocks Road, we wound up instead swept along in the current of St. Louis–bound trucks on I-270. We had to settle for an out-the-window view of the famous iron bridge that since 1927 has spanned the Mississippi with a quirky thirty-degree bend in the middle.The bridge hasn’t been drivable since 1968...

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