DAY FIVE – GOOD BYE MISSOURI, HELLO NEBRASKA!

I don’t remember a whole lot about the weather conditions today (I’m typing this on 9/10/10) but I know I was still doing a lot of hill surfing. I do know that when I was trying to get thru Savannah my directions routed me on a County Road. When I could not find it I stopped and asked a couple guys at a Co-op. They said it was right in front of their store. So, I rode a hundred yards or so around a corner and what I saw was gravel! Oh, no! I went down it to another corner a short distance and looked around the bend….more gravel. So, I turned around and went back to the same guys. They said every County Road was gravel but told me a better route.

Back into the hills I went until I got to Oregon (the town) and stopped for a break. The lady in the grocery store said after Oregon it would be mostly flat. That was true because I was dropping into the Missouri River bottoms near Rulo, NE. They had had a lot of bad flooding there and the bridge was still being worked on. But, before I got to the bridge and after things finally did level out, I had a pack of three blood hounds try to take me down. I blasted my horn and peddled as fast as possible. Thankfully, a car was coming from the other way and they gave up the chase when confronted by the car.

After crossing the Missouri River I still had to climb some substantial hills to get up on level ground again. But, things got better and I arrived at the First Baptist Church in Falls City about an hour before their Bible Study. I met their intern pastor, Gary Williams and his wife, plus some of the congregation and Elder Jim Hersh. They let me spend the night in the church which I was most grateful.

Tomorrows destination is Barneston, NE.