Overnight missive from CT:
"Missouri! 6th State of the trip. We're in St Joseph, Missouri, where we're staying tonight.
Tough cycling today. Did 103 miles but all in heavy winds. Frustrating as this is where we'd planned to be clocking up 130+ but its just not possible in this weather. Not even 'The Cynical Brothers', Bonner & Gordy (who incidentally refuses to pledge a cent of donation until we've completed the entire route to NYC), can claim we've been lucky this week.
We are quite glad to see the back of Kansas. I think we caught it on a bad few days with the weather but of all the states we've been through this is the one that is least how we expected it to be. Certainly tougher terrain for cycling than expected.
The people have been fabulous though. Met an interesting elderly couple this morning at breakfast - Chuck and Daisy from Kansas who were in Marysville to attend a sale of tractor parts and antique engines. He got his wallet out to show me some pictures that I assumed would be his grandchildren but no, he actually had pictures of all his tractors in his wallet. To be fair though, he also had a picture of his wife Daisy - in the background standing behind his favourite tractor. As we left breakfast thinking, could there be a worse way to spend a Sunday than at a sale of tractor engine parts in Marysville, Kansas, I imagine Chuck and Daisy were saying the same to each other about us cycling against the wind over the hilly route 36 to Missouri.
Cheers,CT"
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