May 2, 2014: St. Louis, Missouri to Stanton, Missouri Distance: 67 miles While we’d have loved to start our Route 66 trip at its eastern terminus in Chicago, we already had plans that involved being in St. Louis for a couple weeks and it just wasn’t practical or cost effective to drive further northeast just to do a stretch of road back southwest.We instead opted to complete that leg of the Mother Road another time. We already knew we wouldn’t be going all the way to the western terminus in California during this trip, so there was no pressure to do the entire road in one…