Thursday May 21st (Day 7 of riding)

10 miles of paved road then 20 of gravel road (lots of dust). After this there were really nice roads with dappled shade from trees arching over the road and enough moisture in the road to have little dust.

2 police cars - both seemed to be checking us out as if they were thinking about pulling us over.

Stopped for gas and the pumps had some funky process to get them going. No one could successfully fill their bikes.

At the AK / OK boarder there were a lot of chicken farms - strong smell.

Most roads became gravel which had fine dust.

David Rush miscalculated a turn and ended up hung up on a pile of dirt at the edge of the road. Rick and I stopped to take pictures and video.


Eventually he got the bike back on the road but he was a bit pissed that we didn't help.


By the side of the Illinois river we saw Patriot park. I wanted to take pictures within the park but then we saw no trespassing signs so apparently it was private property. Just as we turned around to leave a guy from across the road on a ride on lawn mower told us we could go in. He was the owner. He had built a really cool tree house, a river side deck etc. It was like a mini city park.



During the day we saw 6 deer, 12 dead armadillo, and a number of dead possums which all had smiles on their faces.

We ended up in Bartlesville in good time and visited David Hill and David Rush's old homes where they grew up. After that we stopped by the Bartlesville Cycle Sport store to say hello. This is the place where David, David and Rick bought their bikes.




Rick went to take a photo of a guy on a horse but beeped his horn accidently and the horse turned on him... We had to step in and separate them before the horse kicked his butt.

Stirling's for dinner (steaks, trout almandeen)
Cab Renick liquor store.

Dave said pathos is a great word but sadly his point ended up being bathos.