Katy Trail - Day 2, part 1

Day 2 - This time we rode from Hartsburg to McBaine - lots to see and a nice ride. We should have stopped with that. When we got back to our bed and breakfast we ate lunch, took a nap and then took off again in the other direction. Another great trip, but boy were we tired. That was the 50 mile day. We said we were going to do it. No one believed us....so of course we had to prove that we could. But we only went that far once. That was enought!



The Globe was an old hotel made into a bed and breakfast.  It was really very nice but not exactly what we expected.  I associated bed and breakfast with this wonderful cook and wonderful feast for breakfast....well....she did bake muffins, very good muffins, but small and unamazing.  Then we had juice, we each got one hard-boiled egg, there were muffins, and yogurt.  I think I could do a bed and breakfast if that's all that is expected!  It was actually a pretty good breakfast for

bikers, I think, not too heavy and not so much you got sick.  And....she let us take two muffins with us on the trail because nothing is open on Monday and Tuesday for food.

This bed and breakfast was filled with cats, both inside and out.  They weren't allowed in the rooms, but they were everywhere else...lucky we like cats, so it was OK!

We had only gone about 4 miles when we came upon a man with a packed cart and a broken bicycle, just sitting on the trail.  We asked if we could help, not unless we had a match.  And I have no idea how that would have helped him!  But we didn't get away fast enough.  He noticed our First Christian shirts and went off about how the world was coming to an end and it was a very evil place.  He had all sorts of philosophies about the Kennedy's, about politics in Missouri, about churches in Missouri....he had the gift of prophecy.  The problem was, he also had a demon possessing him and he was trying to get to Colorado where he knew a man who could help him get rid of it.  He told us to read a couple of chapters in Isaiah and we finally managed to pull away....weird!  We thought we would run into him on the way back....he just seemed to have disappeared!



Views and things to see from Hartsburg to McBaine

Boat cemetary

Bike cemetary!

  This is the old burr oak just west of McBaine. It was huge!!!! It didn't looks so big from the trail, but as you can see....really big! If you go....take the 5 minutes it takes to leave the trail and sit under it's shade for a few minutes!

  View from the burr oak, in the middle of no where!

We stopped for some peanut butter sandwiches and bananas (which we always carried with us) in McBaine.  When we got back to Hartsburg we were really hungry so we ate at this little pub/grill.  The sandwiches were delicious.  The mayor runs the place and has big dreams.  It actually has live entertainment 4 nights a week, but not on Monday or Tueday! 

After lunch we went back to the Globe for a nap before we began the 2nd half of the day's ride.