Paul's Bike Trip on the Katy Trail

Paul, along with his brother David and good friend Mitch, rode their bicycles along 160 miles of the Katy Trail in Missouri during the last weekend in April. They left at 4am on Friday the 24th and drove to Sedalia to start. They ended up in Washington on the afternoon of Sunday the 26th, where they hopped the Amtrak to get back to the cars. They had to drive back home in the rain and didn't get here til 2am Monday morning, but they had a blast! They all enjoyed checking out the sights along the trail, roughing-it in tents, getting good exercise and bad sunburns, and eating fatty foods at lots of little hole-in-the-wall places along the trail. Highlights included getting barely any sleep the first night while they listened to a bunch of guys drinking and blaring their music nearby, and getting lots of verbal and "fingeral" insults from drivers while they were crossing a narrow bridge into Washington. Paul definitely had a great time and is already making plans to do it again! Here are some pictorial highlights:

Getting started in Sedalia (Mitch, Paul, and David)
an old bridge along the Trail (Paul)

the fancy rock-faced side of an old tunnel under the railroad tracks

the other, more humble side (David & Mitch)

an old shelter someone built into the rocks bluffs (Paul)

the biggest Burr Oak tree in MO, with a couple of dwarfs under it (David & Mitch)

another big rock with the years and heights of the MO River flooding carved into it (Paul) their campsite the 2nd night (Mitch)

the big bridge into Washington as viewed from the train station