We went to the continental breakfast at the motel. Then we finished working on the blog before we left so we got a later start. The site crashed last night and my wonderful niece Allison finally was able to get it going again. We rode on historic Route 66 part of the way today. Two dogs came out on the road today one of them a pitbull. We started yelling and blowing the air horn . No one came out of a house to check on them and they kept following us and I kept blowing the horn. Finally they stopped. The next Campground seemed a bit too far since we got started late. So we stayed at Meramec State Park. It was over a mile climb to get to the campground. At one point it was so steep, worse than the Rockies, that my front tire was sliding sideways so I had to push my bike up the hill. Not fun! Our journey tomorrow will begin by climbing out of this place. It is very pretty. We used our jetboil Cook stove and had Cuban coconut black bean and rice for supper and a banana. No flat tire today! We were warned about raccoons at this state park so thank you to our neighbors Keith and Debbie let us put our food in the back of their pickup to keep it safe from the raccoons. That young adults camping behind us for the first time offered to blow up our air mattresses with their electric pump which doesn't work on our mattresses. So they gave Bob ice instead. When we asked the state park ranger what made them a handicap site he said we put a sign there. But then he gave us a discount and we used a regular site. It was sunny and hot in the upper 80s again today. I wore a long-sleeve shirt and capri pants because once again I have a sun rash and mosquito bites so my skin is all speckled. We rode 21 miles today.