Downside of Missouri

We have a lot of mosquito bites, in spite of DeepWoods OFF.

We didn't find a lot of wifi in Missouri.  Even McDonalds wasn't always a sure thing.
Our last day of riding in MO was eventful.  The morning was hot and overcast.  We rode the rolling hills ant stopped in the booming metropolis of Dexter at McDonalds.  (It had no wifi.)

We ate lunch and went in for an ice cream.  Came out and someone had unscrewed our compressor hose connection and stolen it - right under the watchful eye of our faithful driver, Hanz, who was playing a game on his cell phone and texting in the camper with his cap over his watchful eye.  Oh well. They could have stolen our bikes.  So we figure it was probably a one-legged thief with an inflatable prosthetic.


Almost as soon as we started riding after lunch, it started raining.  Since we had noticed the clouds, we had our rain gear.  Since we had noticed the clouds, we had instructed Hanz to wait a half hour and then pass us and wait again, in case we needed to get inside.  Which meant that Hanz left immediately and was at the next stop 10 miles away by the time the wind whipped up a huge dust storm and the rain was in torrents.
We ducked into a video store to wait it out.

Which was sad. The manager was very nice and wanted to hear about our ride a little.  The store was a chain, "Family Video."  He asked if there were FV stores in California.  He has aspirations of managing a West Coast operation.  He kind of took it the wrong way when we told him that there weren't many video stores in CA.  He took it to mean that the field is wide open for him....


It kept raining, but the wind stopped, so we finished out the rest of the 50 miles in our fashionable yellow jackets.  It wasn't cold.  Hanz unfortunately got lost and drove around all afternoon.  Good thing gas is so cheap and we're rich.  <= Example of Sarcasm.