{"id":1830,"date":"2010-05-06T12:00:38","date_gmt":"2010-05-06T12:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kosmos.liveflux.net\/blog\/?p=1830"},"modified":"2025-06-20T16:36:55","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T16:36:55","slug":"joplin-to-st-louis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kosmos.liveflux.net\/blog\/2010\/05\/06\/joplin-to-st-louis\/","title":{"rendered":"Joplin to Lake St. Louis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Thursday, April 29, 2010: Day 6, Joplin, Missouri to Lake St. Louis, Missouri<br \/>\nVia: I44 <\/em><\/p>\n<p>We are having a great time on the <a href=\"https:\/\/kosmos.liveflux.net\/blog\/2010\/04\/25\/passage-across-america-begins\/\">Passage Across America<\/a>! Fuel consumption is on track so far, although we have gone a few more miles than expected. The car no longer looks as weighted down.<\/p>\n<p>Bit of Eden Bed &amp; Breakfast, Joplin, Missouri:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/IMG_1493-Small.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1493-Small.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Adding 2 containers of fuel before leaving the B&amp;B:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/IMG_1496-Small.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1496-Small.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>For more on our time in Joplin, along with many pictures, see the <a href=\"https:\/\/kosmos.liveflux.net\/blog\/2011\/05\/29\/remembering-joplin-missouri\/#more-2252\">Remembering Joplin, Missouri <\/a>post.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>World&#8217;s Largest Gift Store with a giant candy store directly next door, Phillipsburg, Missouri (Las Vegas, Nevada also claims to have the world&#8217;s biggest gift store. <a href=\"https:\/\/kosmos.liveflux.net\/blog\/2010\/11\/02\/we-havent-vanished\/\">Read the verdict here about which store is truly the biggest<\/a>):<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/IMG_1590-Small.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1590-Small.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>World&#8217;s Largest Rocking Chair, Fanning Missouri: <!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/IMG_1615-Small.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1615-Small.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Visiting our friends the Hocker Family in Lake St Louis (Suburbs of St. Louis, Missouri):<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/IMG_1653-Small.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1653-Small.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>This is Part 8 of the Passage Across America series. Read\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/kosmos.liveflux.net\/blog\/2011\/05\/29\/remembering-joplin-missouri\/\">Part 7\u00a0here<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/kosmos.liveflux.net\/blog\/2010\/05\/09\/lake-st-louis-to-brookfield\/\">Part 9 here.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, April 29, 2010: Day 6, Joplin, Missouri to Lake St. Louis, Missouri Via: I44 We are having a great time on the Passage Across America! Fuel consumption is on track so far, although we have gone a few more &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kosmos.liveflux.net\/blog\/2010\/05\/06\/joplin-to-st-louis\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[407,2,398],"tags":[132,139,133,88,137,138],"class_list":["post-1830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-missouri","category-northamerica","category-tourist-activities","tag-joplin","tag-lake-st-louis","tag-missouri","tag-passage-across-america-on-one-load-of-fuel","tag-worlds-largest-gift-store","tag-worlds-largest-rocking-chair"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosmos.liveflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosmos.liveflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosmos.liveflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosmos.liveflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosmos.liveflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1830"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/kosmos.liveflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13243,"href":"https:\/\/kosmos.liveflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1830\/revisions\/13243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosmos.liveflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosmos.liveflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosmos.liveflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}