The day started relatively uneventful as we set of towards Kansas City MO (Missouri). The landscape is slowly turning into the archetypical flat Midwest USA. The weather is warm and dry with little wind. We first went to the river just outside Steelville to film riding across the old 1930 bridge. After that Craig and Lards tried to play choo choo train with the Harleys, a not so successful venture ;). 
On our way towards Kansas City we rode through a little town called Sedalia. Turning into Ohio Street to do some filming we found the most surreal scenery. About 90 percent of the old buildings were empty. It looked almost like a horror movie in which almost everyone died of some horrible disease or a nuclear bomb had made the town radioactive.
After filming we went to Starbucks for coffee upon which I decided to return to take some photos of the “deserted” town. Once done, after some 20/30 minutes, I returned to Starbucks to find the rest gone. As agreed I headed to the rendezvous point (riding fairly quickly) to find no one there either.
So I called the film crew and they gave me their location in Kansas City. Before I set of a friendly police woman stopped to check whether I had bike trouble and whether she could help. When she left, a ute almost crashed into her (she wasn’t looking to well) but the driver still had to pull over and got a talking to.
I headed of to meet the boys and on my way there I saw Macca race by, going in the wrong direction. When I got there, I found out the rest was still scattered all over town. Then Craig called, and he wasn’t a happy camper to say it lightly. He had been waiting for Macca for an hour and Macca never showed up. In the mean time I tried to talk Lards towards us, without success but he did leave his location with us. Once that was set in the Tom Tom we decided to pick him up when Macca finally showed up.
When he did we set of towards Lards and the 5 of us headed towards the motel that Craig had found just outside town. A lot of talking and emptying a margarita bottle helped in settling things ;) Plans for tomorrow are……………….tomorrow.
On our way towards Kansas City we rode through a little town called Sedalia. Turning into Ohio Street to do some filming we found the most surreal scenery. About 90 percent of the old buildings were empty. It looked almost like a horror movie in which almost everyone died of some horrible disease or a nuclear bomb had made the town radioactive.
After filming we went to Starbucks for coffee upon which I decided to return to take some photos of the “deserted” town. Once done, after some 20/30 minutes, I returned to Starbucks to find the rest gone. As agreed I headed to the rendezvous point (riding fairly quickly) to find no one there either.
So I called the film crew and they gave me their location in Kansas City. Before I set of a friendly police woman stopped to check whether I had bike trouble and whether she could help. When she left, a ute almost crashed into her (she wasn’t looking to well) but the driver still had to pull over and got a talking to.
I headed of to meet the boys and on my way there I saw Macca race by, going in the wrong direction. When I got there, I found out the rest was still scattered all over town. Then Craig called, and he wasn’t a happy camper to say it lightly. He had been waiting for Macca for an hour and Macca never showed up. In the mean time I tried to talk Lards towards us, without success but he did leave his location with us. Once that was set in the Tom Tom we decided to pick him up when Macca finally showed up.
When he did we set of towards Lards and the 5 of us headed towards the motel that Craig had found just outside town. A lot of talking and emptying a margarita bottle helped in settling things ;) Plans for tomorrow are……………….tomorrow.
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