Big Days; We Make Our Own Entertainment; Road Numbering; We Got Plenty of Room
Big Days: When we originally planned this road trip we had only the vaguest idea of the time needed, and thought we would potter gently through the states indulging in various diversions. However that assumes that the countryside is filled with diversions, not to mention hotels. The various hotel booking sites now give you some insight although both the best and the worst ones don’t tend to be listed, but when you find it is 360 miles from Dodge City to Kansas City you may as well just sit there and keep on drivin’ or it will be Hello Mr Cockroach.
We Make Our Own Entertainment: We may have mentioned that there is no radio in the car, which is a shame as we had been looking forward to rockin’ along to radio KJIL and anything else that we could find on the dial. However the central portion of the USA does remind us of songs, usually only two lines of each one, from “On the banks of the Ohio”, to “The Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia” (we are maybe getting a bit ahead of ourselves here), to “Shenandoah”, to “Country Roads Take Me Home”. Now all we need is a 1-800 number to send donations to and some advertisements read out by the announcer “Remember folks, when you want the best funeral for your loved ones go to Heppah’s Mortuary Services” and it will be almost as good as the real thing.
Road Numbering: I have found a handy guide to US road numbering here (you will need to scroll down to the section on numbering, if you don’t get sidetracked along the way). I think you will find it useful and informative, especially when it explains how “Odd [interstate] route numbers increase from west to east, and even-numbered routes increase from south to north to avoid confusion with the U.S. Highways, which increase from east to west and north to south.” I really must ask these people to explain the laws of cricket some time.
We Got Plenty of Room: I have been trying to take a picture that sums up quite how much room there is for things here, and I think I have it. This picture is from Google Streetmap but it is of a set of garages that we passed which you can rent. If these were in the UK they would be all crammed up together separated by the smallest possible margin of broken tarmac. 
In fact, I have found this picture just to show you. Never say I don’t work hard at this blog
We Ain’t Got Plenty of Room: Then again, we have just driven past a crowded, dusty RV site with the brown dust and the black and white RVs looking spookily like a beef feedlot. So maybe I am guilty of some selective editing.
Actually Maybe We Have Got Plenty of Room: But we did pass a drive in cinema! Wow! I didn’t get a picture but I found this on the internet, of the “21 Drive In” near Van Buren, MO. It’s a proper one, with the old speakers-on-poles as well as FM audio, and there is some information about it here just in case you were ever in Missouri and wanted to go. 
Sorry it’s only a little picture but our keen eyed reader(s) will notice that pickups are parked with the loadbed facing the screen, I guess you can put a sofa in there. Ha ha, I knew there must be a reason for having such enormous pickups.