{"id":14347,"date":"2019-07-18T03:08:38","date_gmt":"2019-07-18T03:08:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/?p=14347"},"modified":"2019-07-17T03:10:40","modified_gmt":"2019-07-17T03:10:40","slug":"and-then-it-was-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/?p=14347","title":{"rendered":"And Then it Was Over"},"content":{"rendered":"

After Fort Wayne, I had a few more grain elevators to stop at\u00a0and then it was just drive, drive, drive until I got back to Kansas City.<\/p>\n

I did stop at one memorable place: Blue Springs Cafe in Highland, Illinois. It was about 35 miles east\u00a0St. Louis just off I-70.<\/p>\n

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As I approached, the billboards kept touting it as having been on FoodNetwork on “The Best Thing I Ever Ate<\/a>.” Their claim to fame is their “Mile High Pies.”<\/p>\n

Of course, I had to have a slice.<\/p>\n

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I borrowed this photo from The FoodNetwork files, I hope they don’t mind.<\/p>\n

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It was a homey little restaurant. I don’t remember what I ate, aside from the pie, but I do remember that I wasn’t disappointed.<\/p>\n

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They had a display of pies near the door. I’ll bet you could buy a whole one “to go.” Or, maybe you could just ask for a fork at eat it there.<\/p>\n

Another night in a nondescript hotel at an interchange along the interstate and then it was over. I took the company’s car back, transferred my stuff to my Escape and I was ready to head back.<\/p>\n

Not before I took a photo of the odometer.<\/p>\n

Here’s the beginning mileage:<\/p>\n

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Here’s the ending:<\/p>\n

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That’s 8,238 miles.<\/p>\n

And I’m not home yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After Fort Wayne, I had a few more grain elevators to stop at\u00a0and then it was just drive, drive, drive until I got back to Kansas City. I did stop at one memorable place: Blue Springs Cafe in Highland, Illinois. It was about 35 miles east\u00a0St. Louis just off I-70. As I approached, the billboards … Continue reading And Then it Was Over<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1328],"class_list":["post-14347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-blue-springs-cafe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14347"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14363,"href":"https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14347\/revisions\/14363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}