Today is a non riding day, the bikes stay in the parkade and we'll be cabbing and walking around. Bill and I negotiated a very reasonable 1000 lobby call so the morning was quite relaxed. I was able to catch completely up on the blog, I am now writing about today's activities tonight, that has never happened, we'll see how long it lasts. Having satisfied one of our two not quite so lofty goals already, that being Pappy's Smokehouse we set off the the Gateway Arc...

I awoke at about 0500 and did a couple of hours of blogging, got almost caught up. You have prolly noticed I am keeping it to text only this year, partially because this blog site isn't as good as the one I used before, you can't weave the images and video into the story, they appear on separate tabs. Also because the multimedia rich Blog I wrote for the Alaska trip became a 4+ hour commitment each day, ultimately it became bigger than I ever intended it to be, a...

Got up early and started watching the weather channel, also web doppler radar for the area showing rain fall predictions. Left about 1030 with a plan to turn north about 20 miles down the road, just inside of Louisiana. I ended up on a bone straight agricultural road that was just the way I like 'em; smooth new asphalt scarcely traffic'ed. Louisiana is broken up into parishes, not counties, and there are a great many churches all around, and bordering this road....

Left Lincoln at 1115, I was waiting for the rain to move on, but was only partially successful. I found the street I was on led straight to minor highway that connected to Interstate 29 southbound so that worked out very well. Leaving Nebraska I was in Iowa for about 15 km before crossing into Missouri. At 140 kph that is about 6 minutes give or take, and is what I consider to be a suitable exposure time to that state. A few years ago on a trip to Washington, DC...