104.35km. 1,034m ascent. 4h49 ride time
Following a not so great night’s sleep in the North Park at Marshfield due to the everlasting heat, we set off early to beat the heat agin.
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Wonderfully cool so early and a side to tail wind made today’s ride really enjoyable, even though it was up near 40C at lunchtime just before we reached Houston 🥵.
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Missouri has had excessive rain prior tour arriving so everything was lush and green. Missouri is a beautiful State as long as you enjoy the never ending ups and downs the roads make. We do enjoy this, so we had a great time. Most of the cyclists we have met warned us about the never ending hills, but it is not dissimilar to back home, just more frequent ups and downs 🤪
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We stopped at Hartville to get more water and bought an Angel cake from the Amish (delicious by the way)
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After Hartville there was only one possible stop for water but when we arrived the store was closed and being renovated 😱. We would not have had enough water to get to Houston but the lady who had bought the place was there and had cold water in the fridge, just for cyclists 🤩
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We got our bottles topped up and the lady who has bought the shop spoke to other cyclists who suggested she make the cyclist only campground also a cyclist hostel, she thinks she will do that, so it’s good news for future TransAmerica riders 👍
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