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| DAY 26: St Louis, MO to Litchfield, MO (75 miles): RRRUSH ... The day begins with a 6am, 8-mile ride across St Louis to breakfast, avoiding road rage. Bad luck - someone yelled 'Get a job!' Susan yelled: I work every day! |
Breakfast at Billie's Diner. Susan Notorangelo and Jim Bradley wait for the day's carbs. |
Bike Friday owner Forrest Roberts celebrates his 64th birthday somewhere on a frontage road on Route66... |
A killer veggie omelette. |
Richard Wince is the son-in-law of the late RAAM champ Bob Breedlove. He joined us from Ohio for the last 4 days of the tour. |
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| The pancakes were just too huge - even for cyclists doing 80 miles. |
A bridge of Madison County with street art. |
One of the bridges of Madison County. |
The St Louis Arch along the Mississippi River, St Louis. Like half a Golden Arche with the gold flaked off... |
The St Louis Arch. |
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| Gothic looking factories... |
Poster near river trail. |
Leon the South African with his no-hands technique for taking of excess clothes etc. 'Now he has to crochet a cardigan,' said Gary. |
I thought the extra wide portable restrooms were for large people. They're for wheelchairs. Even the nearby Chain of Rocks Bridge , crossing the Mississippi into Illinois, is wheelchair accessable. |
A cyclist who introduced himself as Bill Higgins knew all about Bike Fridays and took a closer look at Lon's Air Friday. |