Today was a long, hard day. We left Jeff City at 5:45 and road 70 mi to Marthasville arriving about 3. The Dixons, who have never bike toured proved to be strong and hard as nails and led most of the day. We met up with the St. Louis crew at Tibbetts 16 miles into our ride, saw them off and on through out the day and met them later in Marthasville.
We had planned to meet everyone in Rhineland about 40 mi into the day at a usual little restaurant that had been around for a while. We had been riding hard and were soooo looking forward to AC and a nice rest and food. When we finally got there we find out the restaurant burned down in May! Luckily there was a working machine with really cold sodas for $.75 cents and we and our crushed souls were reborn again.
We found a small patch of shade from the heat and relished our good fortunes.
We met many, many animals along the Katy today. Besides this goat heading back to his friends we saw 3 dead armadillos, 2 squirrels we hit with our bikes and 100’s others we didn’t, 3 turtles (one Angela relocated to the side of the path) 2 snakes, and one frog.
Besides the heat and the animals that tried to impede our progress we had many fallen limbs to bypass but even this big one blocking the trail did not deter us from our destination!
We finally found our AC/refreshment in Treloar around 2pm, after 60 miles!
After showers we have a nice dinner at Philly’s Pizza, wander over to the KT Caboose for ice cream and then catch the last inning of a baseball game before returning to our rooms for a well earned sleep.
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