As you can see I started my journey at the same spot as the last one, and some of the same ground was covered too. I took I-55 almost all the way to the Cape, but I decided to take a back road right as i got to the city limits, i am not sure why, but I saw some nice houses and sunbathers...
It is a great explorer that not only explores but is willing to point in the general directions of where he is about to explore! Or at least the general direction he will have to travel in first in order to get where he will be exploring!
You can't explore without POWER, and Belle is a 170cc power house of pure power*
*pure power is defined at 68mph for about 15 miles before the red light comes on. To optimize your pure power go a little slower.
My plan was not to stop here, sure I failed to get a picture last time, but my giant taco wrapper photoshop stood on its own. Yet the call to give a leak was just not ignorable! So I took a picture...
Inset is a picture of me in front of a Wendy's, the used to be quite rare here in St. Louis after a franchisee did something bad and they were shut down. They are making a comeback, but not one really all that close to me yet.
I remember seeing Laddie Boy's I in the theatre and I thought they had wrapped it up well. I was surprised when I saw Laddie Boy's II announced in IMDB, but after seeing it first hand I think it was better than the first one!
In St. Louis they have plastic "condoms" on the gas pumps for no reason but to piss people off... if any good came from this trip this was part of it! What a pleasure!
Anyone see Perry lately?
Still can't find that damn Platypus! Ha ha, I had my son going for a few minutes when i told him that Perryville was named after Perry the Platypus! If you say it with a serious face on they will believe anything for a while! After I admitted to him that it was not named after Perry the Platypus I told him the truth, they named it after Katy Perry!
So after packing my lunch and only two bottles of water, I decided that I would get a soda to drink with my lunch so that I could drink the water on the way home. Next 200 mile trip there will be at least four waters! FOUR WATERS!
Well, I do not often eat Pb&J sammitches, not really on my diet, but I made one for this trip, and after I got to the Cape, and bought me an ice cold soda-pop, I rode down to the river front and had lunch! As you can see I destroyed that sammitch and, in the inset photo, I am going to town on my soda-pop!
The Following are select shots I took at the Missouri Hall of Fame!
You know the famous train robber Frank James right? You know, he was famous! He was the brother of the lessor known, not as famous, Jesse James, duh!
Welcome to my select showing of the Missouri Hall of Fame. I took pictures of the whole thing, but I am only going to show some of them, if you want to see them all then get on your bike and ride to the Cape. Because there is no way you will find this shit on the internet!
Here we have three Missouri hotties: Ginger Rogers, Jean Harlow, Betty Grable, and then some guy perving on Betty's arse! Hey I would too.
Dred Scott was involved in a legal fight for his freedom, and a battle that white people, with even sillier hair than his, were having over if black people should be people or property. Another debate going on at the time was if extended warranties were really worth it. Many people purchased these, at the Slave-Mart, to mixed reviews. It is said that when President Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation that he mumbled, "that will teach them to buy and sell human life, now their out what they paid for the slave and the extended warranty!"
The inset photo is of Vincent Price and Rod Foxx. It is said that all Red Foxx needed to do is tell one more dirty joke to get the third "x" in his name. Sadly he died before he could tell it.
Carver was an American scientist who was thought to have been born a slave. He is known to have been an agricultural super genius, and in his later years loved the celebrity status he had. Three United States Presidents met with him and even though he stopped publishing papers in agricultural journals he still answered questions about peanuts in peanut publications; good friends with Charlie Brown, hated Lucy.
This is Mark Twain, and his sole purpose in life was to write books that immature people would not be able to read without editing "offensive" words out of them. It is my supposal that he would call these people "ignorant twits."
So I headed home, but no interstate this time, US HW 61 is what I got my kicks on!
I said to myself, "self, you don't have enough pictures up of you at a gas station where you can see another gas station in the background!"
DO YOU EVEN KNOW how hard it is to take a scenic picture while riding? I had to download a new app for that!
Then not long after that next pic I was back in known space! I checked my phone often, but it was during the last stretch that my wife called me worried. It seems that even though I told her where I was going and all that, well, she did not comprehend the distance really. My son said it was OK and, "we would not have worried for at least two days." In the end it was a wonderful journey, but I wont be out on one that long again for at least a month or so, there is lots of uncharted space closer to home. Hannibal sounds like a nice place to go, but I wont go there unless I have money to take a boat ride. I don't know, any STL folks have any 100 mile round trip suggestions?
I've never looked at what it says.. I'm bad about stuff like this, I'm not illiterate, i'm just in a hurry most often....
