6-3-10 Day 4
Tuesday We drove down to Hartford to visit the L&C Museum and get a couple new tires. We rode from ferry to ferry across the spit of land that is between the Ill. River and the Mississippi River. It was 11 miles but 10 were flat or uphill and the last mile was all down hill to the ferry. We then drove thru St. Charles and decided we could do without the dealing with riding through a big city. So we followed MO 94 which is a very windy road (good for driving little sports car Diana) to Marthaville which is one of the stops on the route, but doesn’t have much in the way of camping for pop ups. Talking with a fireman at the firehouse close to the trail, he suggested Herman MO. We used this as a base for a couple of days. The first night was a little harrowing with strong winds for a couple hours then heavy rain, which is fine, except for the sign on the bath house stating the creek we were set up to is prone to flash flooding. Didn’t sleep to well that night. It didn’t flood.

Wednesday we rode from Herman back toward St Charles on the KATY trail (old rail bed). For those I spoke with about the trip and winds, well the wind does blow east west, just to bad we were riding west to to east that day. We got in about 36 miles which left us just a little short of where the KATY hits St Charles. Emma and i had a nice lunch in a place which reminded me of Park Place in Wenoa. Food tastes pretty good after biking 24 miles

Today 6-3-10 we rode from Herman to Jefferson City, 42 miles 24 on regular bikes and then 6 miles with Marta on the tandem and 12 miles with Emma on the back of the tandem. We went pretty fast. We then moved up to New Franklin. to camp.
Seat is good legs feel like we rode 42 miles.