Geez guys, it is crazy windy out here.
It is blowing me all over the road.
It's also blowing these giant trucks all over the road.
One of them almost smashed into us just a bit ago.
Yeah, that was totally terrifying.
That was pretty scary, you guys.
But I mean, you gotta think we're basically a shed with wheels on it,
so the wind really doesn't like us very much.
But we're getting there, slowly but surely.
Well, good morning Adventurers.
And we're living the life here. We've got our Christmas candle going over here,
we've got Christmas tunes going on,
got some eggs cooking right here.
Our idea today is to make some gourmet bagels.
Like a breakfast bagel sandwich, basically.
Check these out.
They're like grown-up pizza bites.
This was all leftover meat and cheese that we had from a little tray that we got just as a snack.
And Allison came up with this amazing idea to make the cutest little bagel sandwich.
So amazing, I'm so smart.
It reminds me of the time when we actually made pizza bagels from scratch, remember that?
- That's right, the bon appétit video. - Yeah.
That was like right in the middle of when the lockdown started.
Yeah, so I guess this is a different type of lockdown, right?
Yeah.
Two eggs...
For you.
Two for me.
Awesome! Breakfast is served.
And then you take this, you put it on top.
Come on, that works.
- That's awesome. - It's beautiful.
Well, good morning Adventurers.
I said "good morning Adventurers" already.
You did?
When did you say it?
Earlier this morning.
Well...
Anyways, like we mentioned,
we made our way down to a KOA last night.
Got up this morning and spent way too much time getting ready.
We have to get a lot better at this.
We don't have spots for everything,
so cleanup is quite a process for us,
and everything has to kind of be...
wedged into corners and stuff,
otherwise it all falls out of our cabinets.
It's also hard to just get up and going because...
we want to cook breakfast, make some coffee,
chill, take long showers,
because we can!
Yeah, we were just jamming out to Christmas music, chatting,
but now it's 10:30.
But that's okay.
So, we are actually just southwest of St. Louis.
It's gotten very cold though,
and you guys are always telling us we should try to take this thing international,
so we decided we're gonna hit the road and go to Cuba.
But seriously we're going to Cuba right now.
- Let's go. - Okay, adios.
Well we were off, until we realized we forgot one important thing.
I turned around on the fridge,
without to hear.
Whoopsie doopsie.
We keep saying we're gonna make a checklist of stuff...
that we need to check before we leave. - Yeah.
- Haven't quite done that yet. - We'll get there.
Right now, back on the road.
Yeah.
Y'all, we made it...
to Cuba.
There it is, right there.
I was really hoping it'd be a little warmer.
It is so cold and windy you guys, sadly.
As we were setting this shot up,
these trash bins just came flying at us,
leaves are blowing in our face, it's crazy.
Pretty gusty.
But today we are traveling through the old Route 66,
and it cuts right through the little city of Cuba.
Yeah, so we're not in the country, in case you were wondering.
But it is known as the city of murals,
because they have murals all over the downtown area in different parts of the town.
They also, in true Route 66 fashion,
have a lot of very quirky attractions
that we're gonna try to go scope out.
Yeah, we're gonna fit in at least a few of them today,
cause that's something we've always wanted to do with the RV is to take it down Route 66,
try out a bunch of goofy roadside attractions.
Yep, today's the day, the coldest day of the year.
Alright, there's a huge loud truck coming.
Okay, let's get out of here and head downtown.
You guys, we're trying to decide.
What do you think about this parking job?
I'm a bit more skeptical than Eric is.
He seems to think it's fine, but...
if you look from back here, we're not really sticking out all that far, so...
I think I'm gonna call this good to go.
Cuba is known for many unique attractions,
and one of the things we were most excited about were these.
Now, these are the world's biggest shoes
that were legitimately worn by the world's biggest man.
The shoe is the size of my arm.
He was eight feet, two and a quarter inches.
This is so neat, they have it in this case here with these like clippings about the guy.
So I guess when he was 9, he was already six feet tall,
and then he ended up going up to over 8 feet tall.
And very appropriately, it's in the middle of a shoe store.
This is the guy with his family and he is literally double the height of these people.
Is this real?
Guess how old he is there?
He's 21.
Y'all we found a restaurant
called Missouri Hick Barbecue,
and it's right up our alley.
Cause we're a couple of Missouri hicks.
Couple of Missouri hicks. At least today we are in old Clementine, so...
Exploring Route 66.
Man, we're doing it properly.
I know, I feel like I'm a properly retired person,
just out living my life, taking it slow.
It's wonderful, I definitely understand the appeal of this.
We were just talking about how cool it would have been to be back in the 70s
and just driving down Route 66, stopping everywhere,
because Clementine presumably drove all over Route 66, and it runs right through Missouri, so...
I have no doubt, so maybe she feels like home,
she feels right at home here.
Look what we did, you guys.
They had St. Louis style ribs on the menu
and that I think is some of our favorite barbecue that we've ever had in our lives.
Also, look at this cottage cheese that I got.
It's definitely the fanciest I've ever seen.
Yeah, it's got like cayenne or paprika or some sesame seeds on top of there,
and a cheeky little cherry tomato.
Check that out. Oh man.
Oh that's gonna be good.
Look at that sweet meat.
You get just the creaminess of the fat,
that's what makes it so good, super juicy,
very very smoky.
The perfect temperature, the perfect texture,
the perfect day, the perfect company.
Oh, thanks darling.
- I was talking about the ribs. - That makes more score coming from you.
I was a bit more bad than Eric.
I could not decide what to get, so I went with the sampler.
So, I too got ribs, but I also got pulled pork and brisket.
And I got mashed potatoes and gravy and green beans.
I'm going way southern. y'all.
Thell them what we're planning to eat for dinner.
We bought rib eye steaks to make for dinner.
They're thin, cut and small,
but I'm having a lot of anxiety about eating this much meat in one day.
I'll say, telling him maybe we should get some salmon or just go completely vegetarian tonight.
We'll see.
She's got all their sauces all nicely set up for a little photo.
That's one of my favorite things.
Barbecue sauces tasting all the different ones,
but they have too many good sounding ones. How do you decide?
Sweet and smoky, spicy sweet.
I don't know what to do.
Obviously, I'm gonna have to mix them all together and make one super sauce.
Right next door to the barbecue place
is Wagon Wheel Motel and y'all,
this is the oldest continuously operated motel on Route 66.
But how cool is this?
Little Cuba has so much history here.
So this is still in operation?
- Yes, it's still going. - That's cool.
It might be a little dead, it's just a Thursday afternoon,
but yeah, you can stay here, it's been completely restored.
I think these might be the original fuel pumps out here.
So you have to imagine that you're driving this.
It, you know, looks a lot nicer than it does right now.
You pull up right here,
after an awesome day of driving Route 66,
driving, you know, about 55 miles an hour.
You get a little gas and then you're back on the road.
- You're back on the road. - That's it.
You explained it very well.
That's how you did it.
You guys, check this out.
I think this was a real working like pit.
You call it a pit?
You know, like pull in here and change oil on these old cars.
That's super cool.
I'm way too scared to go into this thing.
Man, you guys got to see what it looks like under this old rust bucket.
Check that out.
That has seen better days.
Did you end up using the restroom at the barbecue place?
- I did. - You did?
- Yeah. - was yours an outhouse?
- No? - Oh really?
Oh that's crazy, ours was an indoor outhouse,
but it had proper plumbing, but it was set up like an outhouse.
Our was a very nice just regular bathroom.
- Well, why would they give the man an outhouse? - Not fair!
I just assumed yours was like that. Well anyways, it was kind of cool.
Well,
we made it to our next attraction,
and it's a very large rocking chair.
Y'all, people are so wacky. The things that they build and put along Route 66.
This, believe it or not, is not the biggest rocking chair in the entire world.
It's the second largest, at 42 feet 4 inches high,
it weighs 27500 pounds,
and it's made out of, I believe steel beams.
It was at one point the largest rocking chair in the world,
but somebody built one a little bit bigger, 50-something feet,
so now it's second largest in the world,
but the largest on Route 66.
Also, to win the world record, this thing actually had to rock,
and it did,
but I guess it was pretty horrifying having a huge
multi-ton metal object going back and forth,
so they quickly bolted it down once they got their title.
It doesn't rock anymore but you can still scale it apparently
and get photo up up there.
You gonna try that, babe?
Heck no.
There is no ladder, so I don't even know.
They were saying people sometimes bring ropes and jimmy up there.
I was trying to devise a way where we could park the RV over there and use that
to jump up to it, but it's not quite tall enough.
I was like, you know, cheerleader, get Eric this and...
Throw him up there. - Throw me from here to there?
Oh my word, y'all. It is...
far too cold and windy out there.
We're gonna head back to the campsite
and heat it up.
Turn our heater on.
- That's what she meant by "heat it up". - Heat it up.
Not whatever else you guys might have been thinking.
Your body heat's good for warming up.
We've arrived at our KOA for the night.
We've actually been wondering, now that we're on the road,
we really want to know what kind of content you guys really wanted to see.
because some of guys were saying "oh I'm so glad you guys are on the road",
some of you guys were saying "Iwish you go back to Europe",
some are really bummed that the RV renovation is done.
So we're gonna do a little poll and see what you all think.
It's gonna be in the corner of the screen and linked in the description below,
probably in a pinned comment as well, but...
basically do you want us to
renovate another RV? Do you want us to just keep traveling indefinitely in Clementine?
Maybe buy some land, build a tiny house? I don't know.
Now I know a lot of you are going to leave
comments answering that question, which is wonderful, thank you.
But it would be much more helpful if you could also
or only answer the poll.
because we are trying to get a real quantifiable amount of people who want us to do which things.
Does that make sense?
Well, what she means is ,a lot of times we just read a bunch of comments
and they can kind of sway what we think you guys want to see or what you like and don't like.
And you never really know, so we figure polls maybe a little bit more scientific.
But all right we're going to hunker down for the rest of the night, we're going to get all hooked up
we're going to get all cozy on the inside and then probably make dinner, watch a movie,
just have ourselves a nice little night.
Nice little Thursday.
Campground left us a little notice
that it's gonna get 27 degrees fahrenheit tonight.
I didn't realize it was gonna get so cold.
They left us this to make sure that we disconnect the faucet,
because I guess it can cause damage to the pipes or something.
So instead of plugging up to the water, we're just filling our tank up,
so we'll be all good to go for the night.
I think that we are going to be cooking in here quite often.
It is very enjoyable.
We're loving that we can just cook anything we would in a house
right here in our RV.
Exactly. We did roast some little baby potatoes and some green beans.
I'm so excited for these.
They're coated in Greek seasoning.
This little cavender's right here. Y'all, this is "slap ya mama".
"Slap ya mama" is the best. Kevin Durant seconded.
That's all you need in life: those two things,
some... Ghee.
Yeah we cooked our steaks with Ghee instead of butter this time.
Yeah, Ghee and grape seed oil,
but we're gonna devour this,
we're gonna watch ourselves a little movie, we're gonna chill y'all,
don't need to see that stuff.
So we'll see you tomorrow.
- Well, good morning, y'all. - Hello there.
We had a lovely final night at the KOA,
but there's one thing that was right down the road that we wanted to scope out before we leave the area,
and that is Meramec Caverns.
It's these caves that are carved into the hillside over there.
I guess they're more so underground, but
what's cool about them is that it's freezing out here but it should be like
60 degrees in there year round.
I'm ready for that.
Also, there are not very many people here.
Off season, baby.
I don't think we mentioned this, but this cave is actually where Jesse James
hit out and escaped the law
after the first ever recorded train robbery,
and he got away on this river right here.
That's wild and sounds horrifying.
There are a lot of lights in here right now and it's still scary.
I can't imagine back in the day with just a lantern.
No thanks.
Got to love a cave tour.
This one actually had a lot of really cool formations that we hadn't really seen before.
- That was nice. - Yeah.
So now we have to head back down to southern Missouri.
We have to clean out the garage, because we're pretty much done with it
and we've been putting it off because you guys know we made
a massive mess in there.
Yeah, we gotta go clean that. Thanksgiving is coming up,
so we got the holidays and then we're hitting the road, going abroad.
So we're trying to do a little fall cleaning.
Yeah, a lot of y'all have been asking about the Christmas markets. That is happening.
Assuming the markets don't get shut down, hopefully they don't.
They could put a damper on our plans.
At this moment, they're happening. Stay tuned.
- We might have sad news, hopefully not. - Yeah.
But yeah, this has been a little taste of life on the road with Clementine,
and I think we could get used to it.
Obviously we have a lot of little kinks, we have to work out with this place.
We're basically just compiling a list of all the little things that we got to sort out.
But we'll get there, that's part of the fun of it, right?
Basically, we just need to find ways to...
To like attach everything to the ground.
If we could just attach everything to the ground, be super duper.
Oh you don't like having a pile of junk sitting in our entryway?
No, I don't like it at all.
Goodbye Adventurers.
We'll see you on the road.