Clay, KY + 6 Miles

Today’s post will be late as we have no Internet access tonight in our local motel in Marion, KY. UPDATE – Who knew McDonalds offers WIFi? We had another good day of weather. It started out foggy but then turned fair, a little warmer up into the 80’s, and a favorable tailwind out of the southeast. The terrain and country side was much like yesterday, rolling hills with a few 100-200 foot climbs every now and then, and then suddenly we were in grain fields of the Midwest, with corn, barley, wheat and oats. So we just kept moving nearly straight west to complete 101 miles. Now a century was not the goal at the start of day, although I wanted to do at least one sometime on the trip. It just kind of happened. Sally was also able to get out and ride to enjoy the conditions. We met a bike tour going east on the route, a local Kentucky tour of some kind. Our motel neighbor is traveling alone on his motor cycle from Colorado to “see some places he hasn’t seen before”. We will be riding right through his home town of Canon City, as it turns out. So, the full moon is shining in our window, as we contemplate the free ferry tomorrow, over the Ohio River, into Illinois.