What I hate most about Missouri are the useless or even reckless
drivers. I forgot to mention that one nearly skidded into us while we
were stopped by the side of the road yesterday! We were a few feet
away from the edge of the road, but most drivers still went wide
around us or slowed down- not sure why they are almost too careful at
times. Anyways, two cars came around the bend and the one in front
slowed down a lot when they saw us. The car behind it must have missed
that and had to slam on the brakes real hard to avoid running up the
back of that car. He started skidding though, nearly lost control of
the car and came really close to me. I saw this all happen in slow
motion and I was trying to clip out my right pedal so I could move
further over, but didn't manage so I could only lean over to avoid
being knocked out by the mirror. Scary!!! Today, most drivers were
careful and considerate enough, which is particularly important when
there are so many hills blocking the view for anyone trying to
overtake us. I only had a couple of problems with trailers driving
past way too close, but nothing happened. We got to some pretty steep
climbs today, and my lowest gear is too big so I had to almost sprint
up some of them to avoid stopping or falling over. My legs were really
burning, my heartrate got above 180 for the first time on this tour
and hit that mark on every major climb... We have a few more of these
hard climbs coming up tomorrow so we're not planning on going very
far. (69 miles today, about 62 tomorrow) Also, the weather channel
reported 100% humidity for Houston this morning, and even though it
wasn't as hot today, I swear my kit was so wet with sweat that it felt
like I'd been swimming in it! It sure puts every sun screen's "ultra
sweatproof" claim to the test! Oh and we ran into more dogs, most of
them small so I don't worry too much. But two big ones came running
towards me, I stopped which calms them down but as soon as I set off
again, they chased me again. Including a three-legged one!
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