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"Well, I'd like to stop and see Arrow Rock and maybe a few other things on the way," Sweetie said the night before our ride to Rocheport, Missouri, which is on the Missouri River. My son and his wife had given us a night at a Bed & Breakfast as a Christmas gift, and we decided to use it to mark our 36th anniversary.... 36 long miserab.... er, magical years of marital bliss.
I countered with: "OK, but why don't we just make straight for the B&B and, you know.... cuddle, until dinner time?" Cuddling is good. Now she had a choice: shop or you know,....cuddling. So she had to think about this important decision.
Being a romantic and all, she thought for about 3 seconds and...
"I'm sorry Sweetie, but it won't fit on the bike. Well, yeah, the tank and tail bags do expand..."
We take some back roads from Hannibal to Centralia, Mo. We zip into town looking for a Mom&Pop coffee shop and stumble upon the A.B. Chance house and gardens, which were started about 1940. Chance made his fortune, I understand from making bricks, and the business is still making them. I'm playing loose with history, because I didn't take the time to do much research, so forgive me for errors.
The house is a museum, open on Wednesday and Sundays, and the rose gardens are beautiful. I regret my photo skills do not do them justice. The Japanese water gardens are behind the house and it is like a mini botanical gardens. Not bad for a town with a population of 3774, kind of in the middle of nowhere. Well, not every town can be a mecca for tourists like Hannibal.
Below the rocks making the waterfall is a small door to a dome that looks like the inside of a geode-- again it looks better than the camera shows.
We leave Centralia on MO 124, and after crossing US 63, it gets hilly and twisty... enough so that I have to pay attention to the road rather than what is roadside. We ride through Fayette, Mo. and pass Central Methodist "Bring a covered dish" University. Then it is on to Glasgow, Mo. on MO 240
Some of the houses of Glasgow. Strangely enough, for a town with a big population of Germans and Irish, bars and beer gardens are in short supply. I noticed bikers were in short supply, too. It's a nice town with some very interesting architecture. But no good bars...
This railroad (and highway bridge behind it) spans the Missouri River at Glasgow. Believe it or not, I worked with a guy who, as a kid used to jump off the bridge as a kind of right of passage. Today that would be about a 6 story drop. Show your manhood, bravery, and all that. I also understand males from Glasgow have a higher rate of sterility and flat feet than the national average. I suspect a correlation with that right of passage. We use the bridge to cross the river and head for Arrow Rock Historic Site.
More to come about the ride....
B)
I countered with: "OK, but why don't we just make straight for the B&B and, you know.... cuddle, until dinner time?" Cuddling is good. Now she had a choice: shop or you know,....cuddling. So she had to think about this important decision.
Being a romantic and all, she thought for about 3 seconds and...
"I'm sorry Sweetie, but it won't fit on the bike. Well, yeah, the tank and tail bags do expand..."
We take some back roads from Hannibal to Centralia, Mo. We zip into town looking for a Mom&Pop coffee shop and stumble upon the A.B. Chance house and gardens, which were started about 1940. Chance made his fortune, I understand from making bricks, and the business is still making them. I'm playing loose with history, because I didn't take the time to do much research, so forgive me for errors.
The house is a museum, open on Wednesday and Sundays, and the rose gardens are beautiful. I regret my photo skills do not do them justice. The Japanese water gardens are behind the house and it is like a mini botanical gardens. Not bad for a town with a population of 3774, kind of in the middle of nowhere. Well, not every town can be a mecca for tourists like Hannibal.
Below the rocks making the waterfall is a small door to a dome that looks like the inside of a geode-- again it looks better than the camera shows.
We leave Centralia on MO 124, and after crossing US 63, it gets hilly and twisty... enough so that I have to pay attention to the road rather than what is roadside. We ride through Fayette, Mo. and pass Central Methodist "Bring a covered dish" University. Then it is on to Glasgow, Mo. on MO 240
Some of the houses of Glasgow. Strangely enough, for a town with a big population of Germans and Irish, bars and beer gardens are in short supply. I noticed bikers were in short supply, too. It's a nice town with some very interesting architecture. But no good bars...
This railroad (and highway bridge behind it) spans the Missouri River at Glasgow. Believe it or not, I worked with a guy who, as a kid used to jump off the bridge as a kind of right of passage. Today that would be about a 6 story drop. Show your manhood, bravery, and all that. I also understand males from Glasgow have a higher rate of sterility and flat feet than the national average. I suspect a correlation with that right of passage. We use the bridge to cross the river and head for Arrow Rock Historic Site.
More to come about the ride....
B)
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