Leaving Kirksville in the fog, damp and cool
More rollers, more Missouri rural countryside
More gorgeous wid flowers everywhere.
First SAG -- Chuck and I caught up with Tom, Jack and Sean who could not leave because this train was doing back and forth maneuvers for some time.
Jack and Zero are waiting as well as Judy looks on.
Just after I caught up with Sean, Jack and Chuck on all the hills, we heard a ping, then I saw Jack's rear wheel begin to wobble and sure enough ... he'd broken a spoke.
What to do??? Call for Gerard! He will fix it somehow.
Chuck and I press on and come on three photogenic horses.
This one had enough of all the photos and turned and walked away.
This ride had its ups and downs just like the last two days.
Gerard busy fixing Jack's spoke after he'd put Jack on his own bike for a few miles. He threaded one spoke into the still attached nipple and then threaded the other through the rim and attached them by bending and looping them.
Two horses pulling two wagons.
Great sub and potato salad for lunch at Primos in the town of Canton right on the Mississippi River
Gerard's spoke fix for Jack -- it heald all day long over soem very rough roads.
Inside Primos wating for one waitress to serve this crew. Also got interviewed by local reporter.
Ed trying to force a smile.
SAG stop just at the Mississippi ferry. That's the Canton Press News Journal reporter getting some interviews and shots.
THE Ferry is ready to load, but we did not realize it was leaving very soon, though ...
Barge passing by
THe ferry is on its way to the other side.
Hans looks on
Dan is the only one that made it before it left.
Most of us went over with a large truck.
Caught under the truck == Judy's worst nightmare because of all the paperwork crushed riders involve.
Had some short sections of gravel today getting off the ferry.
Flat riding for the first time in three days in the Mississippi valley -- CHuck follwoing Zero
Flat fertile fields in the flood plain
Pulling into Quincy along the Mississippi
THe bridge across the Misissippi at Quincy -- no bicycles allowed on this one.
Zero and I are poised for the last climb up into Quincy
Some gorgeous old mansions here in Quincy
