Cathy and Tim Mueller in Angels Camp: Day 16

After a continental breakfast and a little bike maintenance, we hit the road right around 8:00. The forecast was for sunshine and temps in the 70's. Since we thought it would be an easy 45 miles, it would be a perfect day to "waller"; riding a slower pace and checking out all the sights.

It was wonderful riding along the Mississippi River on a country road with beautiful rolling fields of corn, soy or wheat.
The town of Louisanna along the water was our first stop.

It had some wonderful murals on it's old brick buildings.

Most of the country homes we passed in the midwest have enormous lawns to mow. It is very impressive the size and hills they drive their riding mowers on.

We found out that there are a lot of hills on this area along the Mississippi. The winds of yesterday were still in our face or at our side, just not as strong, but the hills today were a bit more relentless.

Unfortunately, once again our route was detoured due to flooding. We had to ride an extra 7 miles of steep hills to get to Hannibal. That "easy" day of riding certainly had it's challenges.
We arrived in historic Hannibal in the early afternoon. We found a wonderful B&B right in town that was $20 less than the hotel 4 miles out of town. It was an easy decision.

Hannibal is known for being Mark Twain's (Samuel Clemens) childhood hometown.

Below is the home where Samuel grew up.

We took a trolly bus tour to get a feel for this historic place. We learned about Mark Twain, the flood of 1993, and general history of Hannibal, including a stop infront of the B&B we are staying at to look at the architecture and learn that it was on, what was considered, millionaire's row!