Beat the heat!

Trying to get an early start this morning to beat the heat.  It's 80 degrees right now and only 5:20 am.  It should be well over 100 today.

Kansas City!

Checked out the WW1 memorial. The photo is a view of KC from the top. We also went to the Boulevard brewery (you can see the brewery in one of the photos, too!), Hammerpress printing company, and checked out the Amigoni winery since we heard there might be some cyclists there. Today, we win!

Kansas City!

We made it out to KC today. We have officially crossed over the border to Kansas but we'll take the day off to see KC tomorrow.  The temperatures hit 102 today but we still did 78 miles by 2:30. We'll clean up and get some KC BBQ!

Summit Lake winery

Out on a hot ride near Jefferson City we stopped by a winery on top of a hill. We could have done without the hill though.  The capital building in Jefferson City is amazing though. It wasnt too far from the bike trail we were following, the Katy Trail.

Made it to MO

We made it to MO and were able to wander around St Louis. Today we've made it to the Katy Trail.

Illinois!

We made it to IL. The greeting here is "Land of Lincoln" and the greeting in IN was "Lincoln was born here". So they really like him out here.

Just another 30-40 miles left today

Dogs everywhere!

We're somewhere around Worthington, Indiana on a hilltop and the sunlight is still visible. There were a lot of unleashed dogs on the back roads and we even came across a wall of dogs staring at us as if they were ready for battle.  Or they just knew we had bologna. But slowing down has really helped stop the dogs from chasing us. 

Bloomington and Columbus seem to be the only towns in IN that acknowledge that bikes exist.