July 24 Leaving St Louie
I’ll miss St Louis! And it’s all because of Jason and his amazing family. Jason found out about my ride through Team Wonderbike and immediately offered up his house and a nice bed (the bed was actually his daughter’s princess bed).
I was in heaven, Rachel his wife cooked amazing meals, Jason and I sat on the porch drinking Fat Tire and the kids and I had a great time running around the City Museum-The most amazing playground I’ve ever seen-it’s a total child’s dream–and a Duzer’s dream too.
Today, Jason was good enough to take the morning off and ride with me out of town, I can’t tell you how much safer it is to have an escort in a big city. After a 15 mile jaunt on the ‘safe’ roads, we got to the Mississippi and said our goodbyes, I’m sure I’ll see him again! Cheers buddy!
At the bridge I met Ryan, another bike loving cool guy who I met at the New Belgium beer party on Thursday. He was good enough to take me through the mean streets of East St Louis. East St. Louis looks likes bombed out Beirut, I’ve never seen such a run down city in the U.S. It’s full of casinos, strip clubs and crumbling houses, crazy.
The rest of the ride was great, felt kind of like Kansas, flat, farms and hot. And currently I’m awaiting the arrival of my good friend Alex who will be joined me for the next two days, hooray!
Here’s a video that is sure to make you smile!
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