Musings on horticultural therapy and the soothing effects of plants and nature
The strawberries are in and so is Olivia. After some initial hesitancy to sample a strawberry, she digs in with all of the gusto that her sister Charlotte exhibited at her age. She smiles as thin lines of strawberry juice rundown her chin, staining her shirt. We probably lose half the harvest to her but […]
Where do you go after a long, dusty bike trip? The beach, of course! A lovely day after my sister-in-law Rosana’s art show in Cherry Grove.
It’s a bright chilly morning in Augusta. A perfect day to finish our trip to St. Charles. After an excellent breakfast at our B&B and with a couple of trail pastries in my saddlebag, we are ready for our short 27-mile ride to St. Charles. The sun is beaming down warming us as we make […]
Crossing Big Muddy on our bikes for the last time, it is a bright, hazy, temperate morning: perfect weather for the 37-mile ride into Augusta. After an uneventful pedal along the highway, we are back on the trail shaded by a tunnel of trees. A cool, stiff breeze is attempting to thwart our forward progress, […]
It’s cloudy and drizzly. We are not complaining. After three days on the road, our bikes have a fine patina of dust covering nearly every surface and they could use a good washing. We have 48 miles to ride to Hermann, a town founded in the mid 1800s by German immigrants looking to create a […]
There is an unfamiliar chill in the air as we cross the Missouri RIver for the first time on our bicycles. A slight haze emerges from the Big Muddy under a bright, cloudless sky. We have an early start of 8 am today as we want to beat the heat as much as possible for […]
A cool breeze and more moderate temperatures greet us as we leave our hotel. Before we start our 38-mile journey to Boonville, we visit the Katy Depot in Sedalia. It is a wonderful museum that recounts the history of how Sedalia became a railroad town. It also reviews the history of one of its most […]
There is no way getting around it: it is hot. After spending four hours being transported to the trailhead in Clinton, MO, we are ready to hit the road. And after a quick lunch we do just that. We face a stiff breeze as we start our 38 mile ride to Sedalia. The crushed stone […]
Time for another episode of Erik & Ted’s Excellent Adventure (on bikes). Yesterday we landed in St. Louis and caught a quick cab to St. Charles, the first capital of Missouri, located along the Missouri River. We are hoping the day’s 90 degree heat will not follow us for the next week. We are biking […]
A woodchuck is perched on the woodpile underneath the Fringetree surveying the possibilities. The hostas look yummy as does the excess of clover and plantains in my yard and the day lilies in my garden. This could be a long summer.