On Tue, 14 Jun 2011 13:31:11 +0300, Gadi Ben-Avi wrote:

Hi,

I am tinkering with the idea of driving from Chicago to Kansas City.
According to Google maps it's about eight and a half hours, So I guess
splitting the drive into two days would be best for me.

I am looking for:
route suggestions
Things to do on the way
Suggestions on where to spend the night.

I see it's about 500 miles. At 75mph on the Interstates that would be
about seven hours of actual road time. Add in maybe an hour for refueling
the car and yourself, that's eight hours. Leave about 08:00, arrive about
16:00. in America this is not a particularly long drive, and few of us
would break the trip into two parts unless we had some particular reason
for making the overnight stop, such as some local attraction. The fastest
route being west in I-64 into Iowa, then south on I-35 to KC, not much to
stop for on that route (forgive me for that, Iowans).

I will be driving alone using a rental car.

Currently, the trip would be in November. Could there be a weather
issue?

Midwestern weather in November is highly variable, and a lot depends on
just when in November. Early November may have some midwestern storms,
which can be pretty rough, and there could be light snow. Or there could
be what we all "Indian Summer", a period of several days of unseasonably
warm weather. Later November can have heavy winter weather, or might not.
It's not unknown to have blizzards over our Thanksgiving holiday which
can be bad enough to literally close down the Interstate highways and
strand motorists. Be sure to watch the weather reports before departing.

As the old joke in the Midwest goes, if you don't like the weather, hang
around for a few hours and you'll get something else.


--
Dave Hatunen, Tucson, Baja Arizona, out where the cacti grow