The Kimble Family Summer Vacation on Route 66

Every summer the Kimble family would take a seven-hour road trip to Saint Louis, Missouri, to Grandmother and Pops's house in Villa Ridge, Missouri, off Route 66. Route 66 was developed to create a route between Chicago and Los Angeles. Route 66 curved and wound through Chicago, Illinois, Missouri, and Kansas, linking hundreds of farming communities, helping farmers to transport grain and produce to market. Americans who drove the route stayed in motels, motor courts, roadside auto camps, and co