Here is some pictures from the trip.
It was cold the first day.
We came across this river crossing. We chose not to cross it because it was so cold.
We rode to Cuba and stayed at the Wagon Wheel. The WW is the oldest continuously operated motel on Route 66. It is also on the National Historic Register. The owner described the rooms as "historically small".
The next day it started cold but warmed to about 50 and sunny then dropped to the high 30's with rain.
We stopped at an historic German Cemetery along the way near Hermann, MO.
After Hermann we rode Lost Creek. Troy became an ice breaker and took a little polar bear swim. After that is was a pleasant ride through a number of creek crossings.
Outriders deployed on the KLR.
Crossing the Mississippi River on the Winfield Ferry:
We stayed the second night in Grafton, IL:
The Mississippi was ice packed:
Troy is interested in going back to Grafton because of this place:
At lunch on the IL River there looked to be a tug with barges stuck in the river. There were a couple of additional tugs pushing upstream and then reversing and doing it over and over. It looked like they were trying to break the once from the ice pack.
It warmed to a little over 50 degrees but there was ice in the shade. I hit some and down I went. No real damage to me or my bike but we did decide to stay on main roads for the rest of the day.
The Mississippi River was frozen at Louisinia, MO.
Stayed Sunday night in Hannibal, MO. ChrisCrash left in the morning. It is too bad because some of the best roads were ridden Monday morning.
We rode an a mostly frozen mud road along the Salt River. If it was not frozen there would have been no way to get through. We forded the salt river a few time and crossed it on an old iron bridge.
The back end of Ozarkriders bike after the Salt River Road:
I had a blast. Get Ready for the 6th Annual Bald Eagle Ride next year.
If interested in more pictures you can find them here:
https://picasaweb.google.com/ajayhawkfa ... EagleRide#
