My son, Ben Talley, and I are riding a section of the KATY Trail in Missouri. The trail itself runs from Clinton to Machens, Missouri. Machens is located just outside of St. Charles. The entire length of the trail is something like 242 miles. I had planned a family ride for later in June, but wanted to try the first section of the trail beforehand just to get an ideas as to what the trail was like. The first section that we are doing appeared to be the hardest, which is why I chose it. If I could do the first 75 miles, then the rest of the family should be able to do so as well.
We left the trail head in Clinton around 9:00 a.m. on Monday and arrived in Sedalia around 3:00 p.m. We were tired and no worse for wear. However, I fell asleep at 7:30 p.m. and woke up at 5:00 a.m. on Tuesday morning. We hope to be on the trail again at 8:00 a.m.
Temperatures were in the 80s and humidity around 30-50%, that is until the heavens opened up and began pouring buckets of rain. We just barely escaped the rain. In fact, we may have encountered a few raindrops, but not many.
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