Day 25: Ewing, MO to Macon, MO

Total Distance: 59.4 mi
Moving Avg: 8.5 mpg
Moving Time: 7:00
Climbing: 2700 ft
Elev: 200 ft

Route Summary:
MO 156 W to
MO 151 S to
MO H S to
MO K W to 
MO 151 S to
US 36 W

I actually got a decently early start today, for once. The hills and
pretty stiff headwinds made it a pretty slow day. Up and headwinds are
both on my list of unacceptable things. I think headwinds might actually
be first against the wall when the revolution comes, but up will be a
close second. 

You'll note it was a fairly short day, even though I started early. I
got to Macon at around 5pm, and usually I would have wanted to go on,
however maps and locals both indicated that there would be nowhere to
stay for another 30 miles. Not a chance. 

Today was perhaps the hottest day so far. It was really really hot. I'm
sure I'll have hotter to come, but not by that much. I almost ran out of
water in the morning, since I was on country back roads and there were
no gas stations or the like. The one place I might have been able to buy
water was closed, since it is the 4th of July. If I actually got
desperate, I'm sure I could have stopped at a farm house and asked for
some water, but fortunatly I made it to a small town (pop 66) that had a
couple of vending machines. I went through about 2.2 gallons of fluids
during the course of the day. And almost all of that came out as sweat,
not urine. 

Looking at the map, it seems the next few days are going to be pretty
hilly. Suck. Suck suck suck. THE MIDWEST IS SUPPOSED TO BE FLAT!