Claire's Ride for a Reason Blog

Sunday, June 25, 2006

DAY 9 - Jefferson City, Missouri to Alton, Illinois.

Perspectives from Don (from Friday and Saturday Day 7 & 8):
"Friday, 200 miles of head winds. I was sitting on the side of the road, across from this gigantic display of metal pinwheels with all kinds of sayings, waiting for Gene and Jason to catch up to me for a refill of water...they blow right past me! Probably looking at the pinwheel display on the other side of the road. I run into the middle of the road, behind them, waving my hands, and thank God, I saw break lights, and they turned around. Then, they blew past me again and parked, in fornt of the display. Jason is out there taking pictures and i am watching him..."Hey Jason"...He looks around and spots me, "Yo, where did you come from?" "You guys suck!" They past me TWICE! They only turned around to get pictures, they never actually saw me. I guess from here on in, if I crash on the side of the road, I will have to crawl into the middle of the road to be sure I am picked up!

Later in the day as we left the main US 54 for some welcomed back road cycling, me and gene are side by side, (an unusual sight since we are playing relay most of the time)....we get ATTACKED by freakin "Kujo"! ...This dog came out of no where and ran us down for 100 yards, and was gaining on us! Jason missed it with camera...he was laughing too hard!

Saturday, 200 miles again today between us, head winds diminished a bit, but, a lot of "rollers". Thats short up hill, down hills, up, down.....all day. A bunch of road was either milled and bumpy or absolutely no shoulder! A lot of angry drivers going around us today. Gene was talking to his mom today and explained our day as like "...hanging your head out the car window for 5 straight hours..." ah, the great outdoors. At least the weather is good, 80s, mostly sunny, and a mild breeze. Finally, a large body of water, the 1st one since San Diego. Its the Lake of the Ozarks. Picture Lake George with out the mountains. We ate dinner in this lake area italian resturant. Jason asked for "gnocci pasta", the server had to find the manager to find out what it is, no gnocci. Geno the italiano expert sent his linguine and clam sauce back, "uneatable..." Of course, I ate it, all of it! big surprise right.

Ok, off to Illinois tomorrow.
Peace out, Don, Gene, Jason///

¶ 6:06 AM

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