I wondered if my route to New Madrid last October 26 had taken me through some of the places that have been flooded this week when a mile-long section of levee was blown up to protect the town of Cairo and other places. The answer is no, not quite. On the above map my route [...]
Namesake
October 28. The last photo stop of my 655 mile ride to New Madrid was on US-61, just south of the I-55 overpass. The sun had already gone down, and my back tire was low on air. There might have been enough light to do a repair – barely – but instead I pumped the [...]
Ken Steinhoff’s home town
I hadn’t intended that to be on my route to New Madrid until I saw how easy it would be to cross the Mississippi here, and until Ken showed me some usable bike routes south of Cape Giradeau. He wasn’t sure about the suitability of some of those identified as a bicycle route by the Mississippi River Trail organization.
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