We’re leaving The Globe, after a leisurely breakfast and another nice chat with Leia at 9am. We had only 38 miles to ride today but Tom snagged us a 2pm tour at the Warm Springs Farm, home of the Anheiser Busch Clydesdales just 15 minutes before so now we had to ride hard.
We had time for a quick picture of Boat Henge shortly after passing Cooper’s Landing.
We also managed to find the +400 year old Burr Oak just before McKane. Tom looks so tiny.
Tom also arranged our transportation from Meriweather Cafe in Rocheport to the Clydesdale farm via Donna, a local bike shuttler. She was a peach and waited about an hour to take us back.
Donna worked her magic to get us in through the guarded gates to the farm. That turned out to be our guide Emmy in the golf cart.
Emmy’s leading our tour in a very entertaining way and we learned many things. She’s telling the smokers to leave before they start a fire in the stalls. 😬
We learned that Angela is 161/2 hands tall.
We learned that Clydesdales come from Scotland, there’s a lot of horse sex going on with stallions and mares in the breeding room, and we learned that Clydesdales are HUGE and their baby’s are also very big but also very cute.
After the tour Donna returned us to our bikes in Rocheport and we rode 14 miles to Booneville. We started finishing our ride to Booneville around 3:30 so this would be our longest “day” on the trail. It was a bit hard, especially after the free Budweisers back at the farm.
After a fat boy (speaking of me and Tom) and lovely dinner at the Fred we wandered to the convenience market and stocked up on snacks to eat tomorrow on our long ride to Windsor and Kim’s Cabins. We took a nice stroll back to the Frederick where we quickly crashed for the night.
But not before a visit to the war memorial and the setting sun.
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