Day 25. May 19. Saturday. Sedalia to Boonville

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I don’t know what’s going on but I found yesterday’s post and lost today’s. This is really frustrating.

Anyway, this was a traumatic day for more reasons than one. The first 20 miles were great. Two pictures show the scenery along the way. But after 20 miles, a thunderstorm moved in and there was no where to go except keep riding the tree lined path. Then all of a sudden, God gave me a tunnel to take shelter in, which I did for 20-30 minutes. Once the storm blew over, I continued on in the rain, which I can handle. Just not lightning.

I stopped in the town before my destination and made a motel reservation. When I stopped at the information board right out of Boonville, my destination, I noticed I had two messages from the motel. I needed to be there within the hour as the clerk needed to go to a funeral. So I put it in to overdrive and made it in time.

This motel is over a mile out of town but all the others are even further up by the interstate. But this motel has NO non-smoking rooms and they are very sparse. No glass to drink out of, no bath mat, no working outlet to charge your phone and the chair is being held up by two bricks on one corner. Wow. I’ve never seen this sparse of a motel.

The laundry room was what I’d call dirty. And you had to Gerry rig the washer to get it started. A fellow renter helped me.

I bought food for dinner to heat up in the microwave. Sure hope it works. Haven’t tried the tv yet. I was really hoping for a nice evening to make up for all the rain and the thunderstorm. Not to happen, I guess.

43.7 miles today
919.7. Total

Author: bikeral2000

Retired musician, now gardener and cyclist. View all posts by bikeral2000