West Plains MO

Today we motored across southern Missouri. We looked at our maps for the smallest backroads around and we found them! We were motoring down this one thin lane of asphalt, enjoying the farm country until we came to a road closed with a detour. But, there were no "follow up" detour signs, and our GPS units were screaming at us, so we did a little off road to get back on track.

So some pictures from the past couple of days. We are not taking a lot of pictures on this trip, mainly just enjoying riding through some incredible scenery.

As I said a couple of days ago, the exit out of Boone up to Virginia was a moto dream ride. We needed a bio break, so took one here:

And this is the switchback we had just rounded:

We headed up into Virginia and stepped back in time. As I said, some of the little roads we found turned into dirt county roads at times. Got to off road my new Adventure for the first time.

As we neared civilization, found this farm and critters.

And one more of typical Virginia back woods. We saw places like this everywhere.

Into Kentucky, at the end of the day yesterday, we went into the Land Between the Lakes and crossed this bridge over a man made channel to connect the lakes. The locals were enjoying the water on a hot day.

And then today, lots of Missouri back country, avoiding the big roads as much as we could. The hills mellowed, but we still found some really fun twisty roads and beautiful scenes.

We had been really enjoying our time together and some awesome rides. As "boys will be boys", this is a typical scene in our room as we retire for the day. All that heat, fun riding - just need some serious re-hydration and entertainment so we are relaxed and ready for another day on the horses.

Enough for today, we are ready to go eat and break out the 'gars later in the evening. We are route planning for tomorrow, some more Missouri and maybe one more slight taste of northern Arkansas. just short of 3000 miles on the trip thus far.