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annqueue: Your mission, should you choose to accept it: create a bike out of these parts.
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annqueue: The assembled rig. No idea where I took this now...
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annqueue: I think we're in Kansas, Toto. Well, outside Kansas City, anyway.
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annqueue: one of the defunct settlements along the trail, appropriately named.
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annqueue: "Salt Creek" is a fiddle tune...
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annqueue: first photo in the mileage triptych - mile 224.
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annqueue: second in the mileage triptych
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annqueue: Last in the mile marker triptych. I watched these things for 200 miles...
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annqueue: This is a cave where they stored explosives while building the railroad.
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annqueue: Someone offered to take my pic with the bike. This is her thumb. :-)
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annqueue: Followed this bluff many miles. Wish I understood the geology.
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annqueue: The river is on the right and all cities are on the other side.
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annqueue: Typical of the middle section of the trail. Followed this road many miles.
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annqueue: Church in Rhineland. Looks just like the Danube trail.
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annqueue: Germany, or Rhineland, MO? How can you tell?
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annqueue: Crossing the river into Hermann.
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annqueue: The trail parallels the Missouri river most of the way. The orange dot is a hazard marker.
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annqueue: Bridge out. This is taken from the detour. I had no problems, but the trail can get badly damaged some years.
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annqueue: That's water covered in duckweed under the trees.
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annqueue: view from inside the green tunnel.
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annqueue: Typical trail section.
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annqueue: box turtle?
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annqueue: Black snake. Not poisonous, no reason to fear unless you're a mouse.
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annqueue: I'm told this is a snapping turtle. It was a foot long.
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annqueue: Campsite o the night in St Peters. I like the contrast with the giant RVs.
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annqueue: Trailhead as seen from inside the green tunnel
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