Day 7

When we left Sioux City, Iowa this morning, we had hopes of making it as far south as Paducah, KY, or at least St. Louis. But after riding dry for two hours south through western Iowa, we rode the next seven hours through a steady rain to Kansas City and across Missouri, finally stopping, drenched and cold at a Days Inn 50 miles west of St. Louis. As we rode into the evening, it became harder to see with the rain blurring our face shields. That, along with the fact that we were getting wetter and colder, caused us to call it a day. Once we got to our room and turned on the TV, we saw on the Weather Channel that we had been riding through a storm that had caused severe flooding in several parts of the region. We did manage to cover 470 miles, bringing our total to almost 3100 for the trip.

We'll get up in the morning and check the weather before heading out. Hopefully, the rain will have moved through the area and we can leave early enough to make it home Friday afternoon. Neither of us wants to endure another ride like today.

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