I guess I’m not making my Sunday updates very well anymore. Either way, I’m doing my best, and writing something. I only have about 2 weeks of riding to make it to the Atlantic, so there won’t be many more updates anyway. I’m cold, I’m tired, I’m sore, I’m lonely, and I’m cold. Did I say cold twice? Kentucky got hit with a cold spell, which is mostly why I didn’t write anything. Let’s try and catch things up. I went from Missouri, through th. bottom tip of Illinois, to Kentucky. These are my stops from a week ago Sunday to today (Thursday the 20th)
Springfield (Missouri) to Houston
Houston to Ellington
Ellington to Farmington
Farmington to St. Genevive
St. Genevive to Carbondale (Illinois)
Carbondale to Marion (Kentucky)
Marion to Fordsville
Fordsville to Sonora
Sonora to Springfield
Springfield to Berea
Berea to Booneville
I ended up riding two more days with the brothers from Georgia, before they turned south in Ellington to go home. They were very kind and pleasant fellows, and I wish them the best.
I rode through the Ozarks for the first part of the week, until they seemed to end at the Mississippi river, which was also the border to Illinois. The Ozarks were breathtakingly beautiful, with the trees changing colors, but they were brutally steep to ride. But it only lasted about 4 days, so that was nice to keep in mind. I got my first (and probably last) 100 mile day on this trip, because of a serious wrong turn. But I believe God used that wrong turn, because of an encounter I had with the manager of a dollar general I was buying a gatorade from.
Well my phone crashed uploading pictures, and I just lost 2 hours of great writing. I met some really colorful characters last week and wrote an amazing contrast and talked about storing your treasures in heaven. It was great. But now I’m getting ready for bed, so I will have to finish talking about my ride another time. I’m pretty bummed because I think it was a great write up. So you’ll just have to read about it later. I’m sorry this is both late and incomplete.
But here are pictures at least. More later.
Updates on my trip 