Astoria, Oregon to St. Augustine, Florida. Total miles 4,700.
Here are some of the cities on the route:
Astoria, OR - Start on May 31
Loop ride on June 1Portland, OR - June 3
Walla Walla, WA - June 7
Lewiston, ID - June 9-10
Missoula, MT June 14 and 15
Great Falls, MT - June 19 and 20
Helena, MT - June 22
Billings, MT - June 27 and 26
Custer's Last Stand Battlefield - June 30
Devils Tower, WY - July 2
Keystone (Mt. Rushmore) - July 4
Rapid City, SD - July 5
Sioux City, IA - July 12 and 13
Dyersville, IA - July 18 and 19
Hannibal, MO - July 24
St. Louis, MO - July 26 and 27
Grand Rivers, KY - August 4 and 5
Tupelo, MS - August 11 and 12
Mobile, AL - August 18 and 19
Tallahassee, FL - August 24 and 25
St. Augustine, FL - August 30 and 31
The trip from Chester to Carbondale was, as usual by now, just fine. We have been blessed with such wonderful weather. A tad hot and muggy by the standards of some but I love being on the bike and really like hot weather anyhow so no big deal. We were again on back roads in the country along the Mississippi or near it. We rode along the tops of the levees as shown here. More low lying wet fields though not as many. Still can't understand how folks can get flooded out and come back over and over again. Some of the fields are filled with crops and others with water but I guess to them it's home.
So far along the trip we've seen wheat (Montana and South Dakota), corn and soybeans in Iowa and Missouri and Illinois so this field of sunflowers was a new scene...in fact the only one we've seen so far.
In Carbondale we visited with friends Oved and Marge who we haven't seen since school. They treated us to a nearby peach festival with live music, bingo, great food, and lots of catching up. Great time!
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