We had to go to Missouri. We had no choice its right next to Nebraska, and blocks the way to the great river road, where we are planning a ride north into hopefully cooler temperatures.
I began to get nervous as we approached to border, because
the closer we got the people seemed to get larger, and I am sure they had less
teeth (but I did not check), and once crossing over I began to see numerous
shrines to pensetrump some quite elaborate, and bordering on a expression of folk
art.
The best one was three large plastic elephants, draped with
pencetrump banners, flags, and trump 2024 campaign pennants. I guess they found
someone worse than pence for 2024?
Since Ohms is down with communication with my phone for
music, calls, and text messages, I downloaded the motor company app that apparently
sends routes that you can easily create to a singular destination This proved
way better than trying to program the navigation on the bike with your finger,
and the app works about 85% of the time.
The app also comes with rides from the motor company in it,
and one of these is the Bagnell Dam Loop.
This ride seemed like the best thing going in Missouri, so ii sent it to Ohms and off we went through some rural farmland, around sweeping tree lined corners, and up and down the rolling hills. This is a great ride, it is a lot cooler under the cover of trees, and if you are aware you miss all the turtles in the road like we did.
The app got us to the dam, but that was it. No return loop. No nothing, so it was back to celestial navigation to get us back up to Columbia, and the exit road for Missouri.
On the way to Columbia we passed a new motor company
outpost, and did a turn around so as to get points in the app. And at Columbia
we discovered that you could keep revisiting the same outpost and get points
daily. Such rich knowledge.
Finally out of Missouri and on the famous River Road
This is a great ride! Mostly rural country that parallels the river for some of the time, drops down into some major port cities, and carries on north back through the countryside.
Further fussing with the motor company app reveled that the
only way to build a route/ride that would keep you on a two-lane road was to
create a GPX file, and then import that to Ohms.
Hours later after earning my master’s degree on GPX files
from Google University I created and imported my first route.
It was almost perfect. It kept us on the river road all the way to Red Wing Minnesota, where we wanted to go, and where they make Red Wing Shoes. The only problem was I failed to edit the waypoints that the map program inserted, and had to delete them on the road…
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I think you meant Alton, Illinois not Alton, Iowa! Can you fix this?
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