Day 31 St. Joseph to Chillicothe.

I was only a short ride yesterday, but it served to loosen my legs off ready for today. The four of us set of while Bill pumped up tyres back at the hotel and we drifted slowly out. He passed us soon after as we had stopped because Alan's new chainset was throwing the chain over the big chainring, limit screw adjustment needed. My third bottom bracket was settling in well and seems determined to make it to New Hampshire. A mile or so into the ride we started hitting the roller-coaster hills, up the hill, crest the top, immediately down the other side, work hard to get up the next one, repeat process. Like interval training, but it goes on for hour after hour on long straight roads so that you can see the pain that lies ahead.
At least these roads were country roads with little traffic, quiet and with nice scenery.
The first SAG at 31 miles was in the town of Maysville (should be in Arizona!!)and the local newspaperman came out to take a group photo of us and gather information for the next edition. Unfortunately we won't be around to see it. This area has plenty of water so there are no more 'nodding donkeys' and few windmills needed for irrigation. The properties are big and very well maintained, it seems a prosperous area.
After the SAG the next section was less of an interval training session and we made better time. We saw a huge buffalo under a tree, Amish families using horse-drawn ploughs to plough the fields and later in horse drawn buggies to get around as they do not use cars, power in the house or buttons, and all the men have beards. At the second SAG in Jamestown we saw a goodly number of them. Shortly after that we all went into a pie shop and sampled home-made fruit pies, my apple pie and ice cream was delicious. It was Sarges's birthday today and he got a rousing chorus of 'Happy Birthday' at route rap later in the day. Chillicothe seemed a nice place as we breezed through and I was not surprised to find it was the home of sliced bread as I had gleaned that piece of trivia from a Bill Bryson book.
I would like to take this opportunity to scotch rumours, put about by the lesser celebrity magazines, that sub-titles were used during my, by now, world famous TV interview as I am now fluent enough in American. Also the bit about me and Kylie Minouge was taken out of context.
Today's distance was 90.2 miles.