Evening all….. Big and hot hard day took us 201 miles into Missouri. The weather was a killer and I am exhausted after today. Average was dead on 20 which was hard work but worth it as a big dent of missouri was cleared.

Our whitebits are interesting as in long shorts and t shirts we look like we have been lying on a mediterranean beach for a fortnight. The reality is that we look very odd when you see body top to toe. Our tans stop mid bicep and around the knee so I am thinking that I will have to invest in some fake tan if we ever make it to the beaches of New Jersey.

We stopped in a delightful rv campsite and promptly half blew up our paddling pool for the first time so we could have an icebath next to the lake (swimming not allowed!). It was a Sunday night so the site had been deserted from the weekend campers apart from a war vet who was very friendly and gave us lots of homegrown tomatoes and marrows (they naturally ended up in the chicken surprise with a few slabs of salmon chucked in for good measure). Dowsey and I have become even more infatuated with chocolate milkshakes to the point that when we were in Wichita, and running low on the brown powder, we bought, instead of our carbo recovery drink, some kind of slimming drink; it was the only chocolate thing we could find. Knowing that the Doc would give it the once over we smuggled it on board in a suspicious brown paper bag; too suspicious for the Doc’s eagle eyes it would seem as we were rumbled the next day. The subsequent telling off reminded me that term time starts in 5 weeks time…….. Early start tomorrow to try for a back to back double century so night to you all back in the UK.
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