It's nice to see a foreign traveler visiting small town Midwest (where I live) instead of NY or LA.

You’re reminding us to not take all the great things in our country for granted, and that we should get out there and go see the sights ourselves! Thank you, Marie! Glad you are having so much fun!

The American writer John Steinbeck called Route 66 “the Mother Road” as it took many jobless of the Great Depression (1930’s) to the promised land of California. Steinbeck wrote a great novel called The Grapes of Wrath of people fleeing the Dust Bowl of Oklahoma while using Route 66.

Oh man!!! The American drive in theater holds some of the best memories of mine. God i miss them being a normal everyday part of our society 🤘🇺🇸🏴‍☠️

God's country. The midwest. My home

When my wifes father came into town, both are French, I took them to Springfield on our way back to St. Louis from Chicago. We didn't have time to visit the museum but we got lunch and visited Lincolns grave. Its cool to see it again from another French perspective.

Get your kicks on Route 66 👍🇺🇸

Though I'm Canadian, I'm a Route 66 SUPERFAN! I've traveled much of it at one time or another and photographed so much of the unique parts of it!!! It's truly an important part of Americana.

I love Lincoln even more knowing that he was a cat collector ❤

And all of those old trinkets at the Litchfield Museum are a hot commodity here in the antique trade market. Everyone wants to get a piece of historic USA, in our own country. There are TV programs here dedicated to guys and gals driving all over the states with tips on where to find garages and storehouses loaded with old dusty antiques that they rummage through and make offers to owners. The stuff they find sometimes is amazing.

Dippin dots freak me out it's like they shouldn't exist, but I love them for some reason. Culver's Butter Burger is awesome. I'm glad you're having an awesome time here in the USA.

I have to thank you, Marie for as you say 'visiting the real America'. On a business trip to Los Angeles, I managed to have breakfast with a group of German tourists who told me they were on a trip to 'see America'. I asked what was on their itinerary. They said their tour included stops in New York City, Los Angeles and Las Vegas before flying back to Germany. I had to tell them that they were not 'seeing America'. It takes time away from the big cities and spending time in the heartland to 'see the real America'. Thank you for taking the time to see the 'real America'.

Marie ! You're going to know more about American history than a lot of Americans if you keep this up 😄.....Have fun 🙂

I grew up in Illinois and you passed very near to where I am from. I spent a lot of time in Livingston, Mount Olive, and Litchfield! I have to say though, you missed an important place in Springfield. If you go to Springfield on Old Route 66, you really should have stopped at Cozy Dog. It's a very historic stop on the route.

Homemade Chicken Noodle Soup is good for the soul.

Thanks for taking us Marie, Lincolns home was interesting...you take care girl..

This the real America that many do not show! Thanks for highlighting it!

You are a very loving person that I want to welcome you back to the USA. I started following you when you took us on a tour to Normandy. As a military veteran (not of WWII) you hooked me when you cried for all the allied hero’s buried there and especially when you realized their age. You feel like family to me and yet we have never personally met. God Bless you!

Thanks for showing the real America.

Wow, the tour of the Lincoln home looks so interesting! ❤

Wow!! Quintessential Americana Marie 🤩 🇺🇸 It's great that you've been having such a good time along ⛽ iconic 66 , discovering some vintage attractions. The Signs with their designs are cool , worth a bit to if your a collector & watch American pickers. Litchfield welcome center nicely organised with interesting items about local history , I like all the Route 66 memorabilia & the classy car , who rode those skates , there's a guy working there whose grandpa made the windmill that's still turning there. I dunno if it was available but you could have had a peek a boo car photo taken. Your Diner soup was just like what momma cooks up 😋 & they had some unique flavours that would even make the 🍪 monster envious. I'm pleased about Drive-in still being in favour making a comeback , I guess you'll didn't wanna stick around & watch Ghostbusters again but do check out Bob Segers " night moves" on young love , his music captures a vanishing America. It was eye opening retracing Abe Lincoln legacy , the museum was superbly done , his likeness with everyone looking concerned was perfect , there was also a picture of 7 president Andrew Jackson to. The exhibits were inventive , have you noticed how holograms are becoming more of a thing , the paintings you come across are amazing , all those portraits can be overwhelming , I'm sure i recognise some photos from my lavish book I've had for years on Gettysburg & the emancipation proclamation. Visiting the family home was special , it was warm & cozy , they did a marvelous job recreating everything , I'm glad something original survived. It is overlooked about how good a wrestler he was & I never knew about the stray cats. It's interesting seeing how people back then conducted their time. I've never really seen his tomb , it's strange how the video froze for me at that exact moment. Lincoln comes across as a down to earth & thoughtful man who I would have liked to have meet. There's some classic biopics including Mr Lincoln with Henry Fonda from 1939 & Abe in Illinois with Raymond Massey from 1940. The Restaurant 🍟 with the pink 🐘 was awesome & quirky the embodiment of what America's also aways been about , Celebrating pop culture , having fun & being Happy living a larger than life Dream come true. I've heard that dippin dots are tasty & you can pick up a maker cheaply but they didn't really take off. On a finishing note yes there's a lot of Springfield's across the country & in Ireland/ UK to , my school also shared the same name & I just found out there's a new 🚴 route 66 near me. Merci beaucoup , you would be the belle of the ball if you 💃 dressed like that. There's a terrific Route 66 news website & one of the covers of " get your kicks" by Glenn Frey featured in Disney's animated Cars. Catch you later , like Kasey Kasem used to say ' Keep your feet on the ground but keep reaching for the Stars ✨ Take care Blessings Marie 🤗 💕✌️

You should take a trip down to the Ozarks, SE Missouri area. Spend a day at Silver Dollar City theme park, in Branson MO. The shows, the rides, the food, and the feeling that you've stepped back in time to pioneer days, I think you would enjoy that immensely.

I lived in Springfield for years, now in St Louis. I've driven that road hundreds of times, fun to see it through your experience!

Love your reaction to our country! But I love your country! I cry when I have to come home from France for many reasons. Dippin Dots was invented just down the road from our house in Curt Jones' garage. Glad you got to see some of the middle of the USA!

When I saw a glimpse of the resturant I knew where you were.

I've been to Springfield a couple time's on school field trips. Yes Mr. Lincoln's museum is so cool. Not to mention all those amazing places on route 66.

I do tours in Gettysburg, where Lincoln gave his famous address. If you ever return to the East Coast, I can show you more of Lincoln and the history of the war that changed the US and how we think.

I hope you visited Chicago while in the midwest, one of America's most beautiful cities.

You're where I grew up...sorta...About 60 miles north on 66...Actually you went right there. :)

Wow. The Lincoln Museum and the Lincoln home. That was definitely a great day. That's awesome Marie.

Im about the only American i know who likes mayonnaise on fries, but I did live in Europe for 3 years 😁

I definitely recommend going to a drive-in if you ever get the chance to, especially seeing as they're beginning to be phased out. I used to have one in my town before it closed down. Bring bug spray though depending on where you are. Lots of mosquitos especially during the summer time. Cheers! 🍻🍿

There used to be a TV show called Route 66. Rand for 4 seasons. Two guys in a Corvette.

Hi 👋🤗 Miss Marie !!!! You are Becoming A True Globe 🌎 Trotter 😂😊 🇺🇲 Good Thing you went west vs South Florida was 94 Today ☀️🏝️ and Cooking Already !!! As always the like button ✅ has been Illuminated 😁👍👍😎✨

Bienvenue to Illinois. My home state. j'aime aussi la France. Glad you liked the Midwest.

There is also stuff to see in Northern Illinois and Southern Wisconsin and Eastern Iowa (Dubuque Iowa, Galena Illinois, etc.)

Hello from Northern California

Marie, when you were visiting Arizona and driving on Interstate 40 you were on the old Route 66 which still exists along side the Interstate in places. El Mirage, Arizona

14:36 I love that sight. It means I'm almost home. My blood pressure starts to drop.

Hopefully you can visit Minnesota sometime. In summer for the best experience!

I actually learned something new about Abraham Lincoln. Thanks to you.

You weren't far from New Salem, it was where Lincoln owned a store and it has a lot of artifacts from Lincoln's era. What you enjoyed was what we call "Americana". It is little things that were common in everyday life in rural and small town America.

Super duper!

You do need to find your way to Minnesota. The Twin Cites have so much to offer, but northern Minnesota is the outdoor forest wonderland

I've enjoyed all your videos, but this one was the most fun! I want to go get my kicks on Rt 66!

Hi Marie, you are really seeing the true America and i hope you find it as beautiful as we Americans do. I think its great your getting to experience all these wonderful places in our country. You made me chuckle from your comment about shoveling snow one day and wearing t-shirts the next, there are days you get to door that all by sunset that time of year. Cant wait for your next post, but just remember.....stay happy, stay healthy ,and stay safe......❤ from fla usa

Yes, definitely the real America.

I love mayonnaise on my French fries too!

1st! Bonjour Marie! New subscriber! Je parle peu français Je parle peu anglais Je parle Filipino (Tagalog) I went to France 🇫🇷 last year from December 27th-December 29th to celebrate my birthday (December 28th). The French food in France was delicious. I went to the Louvre Pyramid and Arc De Triomphe on December 27 last year and on my birthday took a photo op with the Eiffel Tower and went up it! Merci/Salamat po France 🇫🇷 for making my birthday a memorable that I will never ever forget. Lastly, France 🇫🇷 is my favorite country!

I miss the Midwest Thunderstorms. Living in the PNW, we dont get many here.

The Lincoln museum looked really well done! That's a place I would definitely like to check out sometime. It was very heartwarming to hear that Lincoln would bring stray cats home, too. A true gentleman! I'm also glad to see you got to try Culver's and Dippin Dots! Two staples of my childhood.

You gotta go to the Ozarks and to Branson, MO this summer 😊

5:26 I imagine the drive in car speakers still work, but likely they also will broadcast over the FM band as well, so you can listen with the car radio as well. The broadcast has a limited range of about 1km, though.

Hello from Michigan, USA. Just enjoying your video on Rt. 66. On your next trip to the US, please try to visit The Henry Ford Museum, and Greenfield Village in Dearborn, Michigan. I'm sure you would enjoy it.

Bonjour Marie! Always love watching your videos. Culver's burgers are fresh, handmade, and very good. Their crinkle cut fries are kinda bland (Arby's has better IMO,) and their most famous thing is their Cheese Curds. Did you get to try those? A few things... Lincoln the second L isn't pronounced, typically it's pronounced as Linkohn or Linkon. Pieces is typically pronounced Pee Says. Route is usually pronounced Root like Rootbeer or Boot, with the long O like boo boo. Glad you got to experience some of the Midwest, hope to see you make a trip to Detroit, Chicago, Minneapolis, Indianapolis, and Cincinnati at some point! Bone journee! ~Be Blessed

So glad you got some more stampage in your book. Springfield has my favorite presidential museum. I can't say there aren't any better because I've haven't done them all. From and back to St. Louis makes for a long day. I noticed your Mickey T shirt. Walt was born in Chicago. His family spent years in Marceline and then Kansas City. Back to Chi town and perhaps some WWI activities in France with the Red Cross and back to KC where he met Mickey. The point is Marceline is about the size of Hermann, and there is a museum and childhood home. KC and Chicago probably have places too. I don't know. Anyway, I had some college friends from Marceline, and we never talked about Mickey and Walt. That's another curly W.

Love watching your videos! I appreciate your love of history and learning about the world we live in. Keep up the good work. I have noticed how you have improved your English, to the point where you seldom need to pause and think how you want to say things, now. Very impressive.

Thanks for visiting my hometown the place I was raised and still live in Springfield Illinois the vast majority of tourists just visit the big cities on either coast it's really great that you're seeing and enjoying the real American Midwest. We have a twin drive-in theater at an amusement park called "Knights Action Park" here in Springfield if you're really interested in going to one you can pick which movie you want to see...check it out online.

ya know - stop in on some town that doesn't have a museum or attraction to see how most of us live - all those places are historic and interesting.. but most of us live in just ordinary towns (and prefer it that way) and you will get a real feel for the country and the people that way

If you have not been already, a must visit museum to me is The Henry Ford in Michigan. Plan for 2 days to get through it all without rushing to much. Greenfield Village one day and the inside museum the other day. They also offer a tour of the working Ford plant that's down the road a bit. The museum is not just about cars, it is full of all kinds of antiques and historical items and monuments. Another smaller museum I liked a lot is Dragonmans. It is a private military museum east of Colorado Springs CO. There is also a shooting range and other activities on the site as well. The guided tour is a little over 2 hours I think.

🖐 Wisconsin

I absolutely love your videos! You should check out Michigan and the Great Lakes, also located in the Midwest. Mackinaw Island, and Frankenmuth are absolutely beautiful. Detroit is the automotive capital of the US. I know you love Ford Mustangs, so you can tour the Ford Museum and Greenfield Village nearby. I moved to Arizona years ago but was born and raised in beautiful Michigan which was a french settlement.

You drove right by my house! Welcome to the Midwest!

It's wonderful that you came to my city, St. Louis, and the surrounding area! The Lincoln sites in Springfield are amazing, and the Lincoln Library and Museum have very well-designed exhibits. I realized that I had not been to Hermann in a while, and I needed to go back! The Midwest is a very special part of the U.S., with lovely people and interesting history!

You have the coolest videos Frenchy. You been to way more places in the USA than I.

Very glad you enjoyed your experience in the Midwest! Love that you visited both my current city (St. Louis) and my hometown (Springfield). Many people consider the Midwest boring, but you clearly showed it's got plenty of places to explore. Next time you're in Springfield you have to get a Horseshoe sandwich, it's a local staple!

I'm glad you enjoyed your visit to the Midwest. Not many people do visit. I consider it America's best kept secret.

Hey Marie, you're around my neck of the woods. Hope you enjoy the hospitality of the mid-west. Be polite and kind to us, and we'll be one of your favorite areas of the country. Love ya darlin and hope you have a good time.

Still waitin for you to get to the other side of Missouri to Kansas City. Hope you got to visit my city while you were here.

A French gal didn't get the cheese curds at Culverts, c'mon. 😉

Still waiting for you to rent a Mustang...ESPECIALLY on route 66!!!! ❤😂

My hometown, I was born and raised in Springfield, ill. If that was the 66 drive-in, where the grass is in front of the screen, there used to be a playground there... Very cool seeing it all again... Thanks M...

Great video!

Marie, those wild horses at 12:54 are Mustang horses. That's where the name was taken for the cars you like. In the back of the cars you'll see the Mustang emblem. 🐎

I love watching your adventures in America! I am wondering if you have gotten to see hummingbirds yet? I think they are the most amazing and beautiful birds we have in North America even though they are the smallest! Enjoy your travels. 😊

I’m happy you visited fly over country. Go Illini!

Very good video

I enjoy learning about my country thru your eyes. Things I didn't know as I have never been to those places. I hope you stay long enough to go to the drive in

I enjoyed that, but I kept waiting to see your reaction to Dippin' Dots, only to have you just show a picture of the bowl!

I do route 66 from Oklahoma City to LA in my Jeep with the top down every few years. easily my favorite road trip. diversions up to moab, sedona and tahoe, occasionally. you should check those spots out. nothing like them in europe! well, maybe there's some nice mountain lakes like tahoe in the alps, but i promise you'll never see trees like the sequoias in austria!

Great vidéo and Great Music too. It's Abraham Lincoln who said :"If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my axe " .Time in preparation ... Thank you For that Beautiful vidéo.

St. Louis is one of the best art cities in all of America. Phenomenal Museums.

Route 66 was called America's highway. I wish I could drive Route 66.

You did a marvelous job! I've been to al of these places, and you nailed it! Thanks! Chicago soon please! :) (See the Art Institute!) This IS the real America!

Great video! The fantastic places you saw - Lincoln is considered by many to be our finest president, so proud you experienced his history. And those sky views! Spectacular! You did it again Marie. Wonderful. 👍

Marie, thank you for visiting Abraham Lincoln's home and grave in Springfield. He has always been my hero. But more than that, I always find it interesting that when you go to the place where someone was born, or grew up, or lived, or is buried, it reminds you that this person was real, and was once alive. They are not just someone in a book. It brings you closer to them.

I love that you get a true experience of being in America. So many people get sucked into the tourist traps and get very skiewed ideas of what it is actually like. Love your videos!

Bon joure, Marie. Always happy to see you.

I don't think they'll let you try on the dresses, but you could ask. lol

Great video Marie.

14:13 Hey, I know that church! St. Paul in Hamel is a wonderful place! ❤

Very little of the original Route 66 actually still exists as it was replaced by the interstate system. You do see abandoned buildings and stuff from a time long ago. Honestly the Route 66 signs are still being made but the actual road is gone. santa Monica pier has the only original sign left that is still mostly original as it gets repainted every year. But yeah most of this generation only knows of Route 66 from stories of the past and how hard it was to get from coast to coast. Route 66 only really lives on as a memory and its legacy on the American people.

Great video! If you ever want to return to Missouri in the southwest side, my wife and I can show you around the Southwest Missouri, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Texas. We also have an extra apartment you and anyone you want to travel with would be welcome to use if that helps you economically on a trip. I offer it to anyone I’m subscribed to on You Tube, because I know traveling and videoing must get expensive. Good luck!

Cool video really enjoyed it.

I absolutely love your videos :) I’ve said it before and I say it now. I love your mind. So much fun experiencing the world with you. Thank you for being who you are. Pls don’t stop, and pls always share.

I am from Springfield and my girlfriend loves your channel! She was so excited to see you visit our local community. Glad you stopped at Jubelts. They have some nice, cozy food. Hopefully you can visit again.

You’re editing keeps getting better and better. I like your music selection. Cheers from San Diego!

I forgot about dipping dots we used to get them as kids when we went to the zoo and water park here in Columbus Ohio. But havent been there in ages so i haven't had them in a long time forgot they were a thing lol.

Marie, I think it is fantastic that you are learning about our history and getting to see some of the Midwest. Stay healthy and I hope spring is treating you well. Have fun on your next adventure.

I am enjoying the richness of your experiences. I feel I am experiencing them second-hand. Welcome!