The Rest Haven's neon may draw the truckers, and Route 66 travelers seeking a completely authentic experience would probably want to spend the night there, but this baseball fan and over-eater always stays in the center of Springfield, Missouri. There is a Holiday Inn Express on St. Louis Street - one of the old 66 alignments through the city - in just the right spot, with Hammons Field, home of the Double A Springfield Cardinals, on one side, and an original Steak N Shake restaurant on the other. Back home, I have to drive to Queens on the crummiest roads in the nation to see a noisy Mets game, and you can't get a Steak N Shake burger in New Jersey unless you drive out of state for at least 600 miles. With the Cardinals in town and with plenty of Route 66 sites to explore, I could happily spend a week or two in Springfield. This would, however, require some explaining to family and friends back home as to why I would spend so much time in this little Midwestern city. But you guys understand. Log Book: 530 miles motored on old 66.
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