May 22nd Klondike State Park to Bluffton, MO 55 miles

The town of Hermann

A winery in Hermann

We ride 60 miles a day- we eat what we want

Pretty bridges

We left the state park in the a.m. and were accompanied by the park ranger for the first 30 minutes or so. He was quite fascinated by our trip. Apparently he met a family last year that was riding from Florida to Alaska. Umm, no thanks.

Of route about 3 miles was the town of Hermann, which is a really cute German town with several wineries and breweries. We stopped for a very long lunch and had that dessert you saw up there (we didn't actually eat much of it because the chocolate was sub-par) and strolled around town for awhile. Then we were back on route and made it to a private campground, Steamboat Junction. We went to set up camp but the mosquitos were so insane that we couldn't handle it. We had spray on, full clothes, and spray (with deet) on all of our clothes, and they still managed to suck the life out of us. So we decided to upgrade to a little cabin. Unfortunately the cabins had no bathrooms, and the walk to the bathroom was really far- so if you really want to know details of how we avoided more bug bites, just ask.