Heading south from Quincy we began the longest planned mileage day of the trip: 103 miles. After some dicey riding with highway traffic and a lot of trucks on SH57, we meandered along the bottoms with lots of levees on SH106. The wind, which had been our combatant, became our friend and helped us along. The roads were very nice with generally light traffic and relatively friendly drivers. We connected with SH96 near Kinderhook and covered lots of its miles at the base of the bluffs with great views of the bottoms to the west. When SH96 turned east, we stayed on Mississippi River Road near Big Muddy and continued to plunge south. Eventually we took the Illinois River Road through Brussels and took the Brussels Ferry across the Illinois River, landing just south of Pere Marquette State park where we spent the night.
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| Bottomland and levees |
We enjoyed our second breakfast at a cool little diner in the little berg of Atlas. It turned out to be lunch also.
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| Atlas Cafe in Atlas, IL |
In the little town of Pleasant Hill we discovered what must be the real reason Jerry McCann could not make the ride this year. He has to spend too much time campaigning!
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| Some of Jerry's Advertising |
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| A year for broad mud flats in the bottoms |
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| Anther view of the ferry |
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| Very nice lodge at Pere Marquette Park |
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| Changing times in the country |
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| Don enjoying the ferry ride along with the odorous garbage truck |
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