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Sunday 4th July 2004
 Sebree
First Baptist Church to Cave in Rock, Illinois. About 57 miles. A pleasant
and speedy day of cycling - flat to undulating with a cross wind that at
times seemed to be a tailwind. The wind seems to depend on cloud formations
- thermals set up by the high heat accelerate the local winds and make them
very variable but, at present, mainly from the south. First of all we met
a tandem recumbent - see their blog
- heading east at high speed. Then we met 2 American tandems -doing the
transAm. Wonderful people from Kansas - lots of advice and humour. One of
the tandem teams had been doing the transAm for 5 years out of the past
7 - just in the Summer hols. Ahh, well it was to avoid that sort of 'bit
by bit' ride that the current 3 month bike ride seemed so wise. Finally
reached the Ohio River - across on the (free) Ferry and straight to the
Campground - no pool, and the River Ohio is grotty (like brown soup) - so
no swimming today. We wandered along the river bank exploring the scenes
linked to the Ohio River Pirates. Ate beans and rice at the restaurant,
along with as much hot tea as we could, without amazement, consume. For
the 4th July, it was very quiet at the Cave in Rock campsite - just a few
bangers and rockets, and then blissful silence. On a quiet, hot, sunny day
it's hard to image the pirates raiding the river traffic on the Ohio River.
Appears, apparently, in the film, 'How the West was Won' (? was it). |
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