98 miles, +1677/-1537 feet
Country roads take me home.....or at least to a nice hotel for rest day.
Yes, the hotel is nice, but the country roads on our cross country journey were magnificent today. Almost too good to be true...
103 miles, +2149/-2023 feet
Very big day on the bike!
One mile from the hotel, we crossed the Mississippi River and crossed the state line from Missouri into Illinois. The roads were as nice as the weather today. The riders breezed...
68 miles, +2068/-2448 feet
Again, we had wonderful weather today for the ride from Moberly to Hannibal. Our first SAG stop was in Paris and our second in Monroe City. Both, very pleasant. Monroe City has a nice city park...
93 miles, +2802/-2697 feet
Today was a very corny cross country bike tour day.
Corn fields every where you look. There's even a corn field outside my window as I write.
In contrast to previous days, we are now in the...
56 miles, +1918/-2143 feet
Riding through Kansas City on our cross country bike tour this morning, the weather was warm, clear and completely beautiful. The canal trail is such a change from any other roads or trails that we have...
72 miles, (+some extra) +3073/-3079
When we left the hotel this morning we were told it was going to be very hot....over 100 degrees. Within an hour, the riders had taken shelter on the porch of a very old house.
The...
86 miles, +3401/-3542 feet
Picture yourself riding cross country on beautiful country roads with little to NO traffic. The corn is growing, birds are singing, and you are happy doing your thing - your cross country bike tour thing.
With a little...
Third Rest Day of our Cross Country Bike Tour in Junction City, KS
Total mileage to date: 1594 miles
Today marks the half-way point in our cross country journey from the perspective of number of days we are together. Tomorrow, when...
52 miles, +941/-1094 feet
Ride a little, eat a little, ride a little bit more....Picnic lunch in Eisenhower Park!
Country Roads take me home.
If the road between Salina and Abilene was good, then the road between Abilene and Junction City...
79 miles, +1651/-2287
An almost magical route on this cross country bike ride. Wide shoulders to begin with. Very little traffic all the way. Two great rest-stop locations. Very nice people stopping to talk with us.
We paused at the Cheyenne Bottoms...
