April 27 Washington to Cuivre River State Park

  Today started out with no rain and dry roads.
We're also quite pleased that all of our equipment had gotten dry.  Most of the mud we had gotten cleaned off the night before and much of what remained we could brush off now that it was dry.  
  Our route sent us down about 3 more miles of Katy trail but we were afraid of getting very muddy again so instead we rode 3 miles of a busy road with okay shoulders. We even had a tailwind that pushed us along. The route from Marthasville to Troy, Missouri was quite good as far as traffic, quality of road and beauty of scenery. As we were working our way out of the Missouri River Valley we did have one hill that was STEEP and we had to push our bikes up most the way.  
  We debated about where to stay because there's talk of thunderstorms tonight but decided to camp beyond Troy at Cuivre River (pronounced quiver) State Park.  We went for a little over 2 mile walk that included 118 down stairs and 141 stairs going up which the Camp Host made sure we knew about before we took the walk.  We saw flowering dogwood, wild geraniums,(photo)
 Indian paintbrush and some other pretty light blue and dark blue flowers. So a pleasant day for biking and viewing the countryside.
  Birds were fun to listen to and flowers pretty to look at, 
but we killed about 10 American Dog ticks at our campsite, they were hungry but we were not generous with our blood.    

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