Today it was load then breakfast,so after a quick 'continental' breakfast (it didn't say which continent), we set off. The skies were overcast with a lot of cloud and it was cooler than normal, but felt fresh. The 3 of us were riding together and after only 2 miles the countryside started rolling uphill and down dale again. This area is called 'The Land of a Thousand Hills' and it is easy to see why, but do we have to go up all of them? It spotted with rain a little, then a little more and we could see rain in the distance. Officially I think we got damp. The first SAG at Linneus was welcome and I managed to stop Gerry from heading off in the wrong direction, easily done. We set off at a good pace to get some miles in but missed a turn again, luckily Kip and CJ saved our bacon.
There wasn't a second SAG set up so we carried on. We had caught up with Bill so Al rode ahead with him while Steve and I continued at an easier pace. The hills continued their sapping of our energy so by the end I was glad to stop. We met Alan at the hotel and together went into town, sought out a DQ and topped up the fuel. The girl servers behind the counter grouped together to listen to our accents as they thought them 'cute' and again we had to explain our mission. Back at the hotel it was a case of drying out the cycling shoes by balancing them on the air-con unit. Worked a treat. After two days of going up and down hills in Missouri it might be nice to get into Illinois.
Today's distance was 84.3 miles.
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