31may2024; St. Joseph to Chillicothe, MO.

 Before leaving the hotel this morning I spoke to Lindsey and she asked if I could dedicate today’s ride to her friend Bonnie who passed away from breast cancer. Absolutely Lindsey, I’m sorry for your loss. I know it seems redundant but I’ll post it anyways. if you would like to donate to the cancer society you can do so on the following link.

American cancer society

Click donate, enter Fred kern in the box, hit search, then tap participant.

Today’s ride is heading out to Chillicothe and it started out this morning looking quite ominous and rain clouds and wet roads but the forecast is possibly that we might outrun the storm and it should turn out to be a nice day.  I have a couple pictures here; one of the weather another of reading the events for the day and then just some cool cloud pictures.

So, just to make sure that it’s not all about bicycling and I stop to enjoy the scenery, smell the flowers, you know enjoy the trip.  I have landscape pictures, driveway pictures and flower pictures.

These next two are really interesting one goes off on a gentle climb into the clouds and the other one is a ribbon of road going off in the distance, you can see each rise and fall of the road.

Every year the tour stops in the town of Maysville, Missouri and the town folk put out food for us. Cinnamon buns, and lemonade and they just come out and walk us through the town and show us the town right in front of the historical society so the next couple pictures are of the historical society and the welcome greeting that we got in Maysville, Missouri.

The next series of pictures are in the DeKalb County historical Society building. interesting stuff from a bygone era of many years ago.

Personally, I loved the military uniforms and the TV. After leaving Maysville we continued east and stopped in Lock Springs, Missouri for a SAG stop.

Enroute to Lock Springs at one point I just stopped. There was no traffic the birds were singing and there was a slight breeze and it was just enjoyable. I took a picture of this house and then across the street was the road, a  driveway and just some interesting scene pictures.

I did some off-road exploring, I parked the bike went for a walk and found this old fire engine/rescue vehicle and this old United Methodist Church. Then from there back on the road one more scenic picture and the day was done.