{"id":691,"date":"1988-08-10T01:22:00","date_gmt":"1988-08-10T01:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/bike1988\/?p=691"},"modified":"2026-08-17T19:18:54","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T19:18:54","slug":"golden-city-mo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/bike1988\/golden-city-mo\/","title":{"rendered":"Golden City, MO"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Road surface change in Missouri.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The next morning, just as I started to get out of the city and into a rural area, two dogs began chasing me. I had to round a corner, and with the loss of speed, they easily caught up with me. I shouted “No!” but it didn’t work. I felt a tug a few feet after the corner, and realized that one of the dogs had latched onto my pannier. I dragged it for a few feet, then it let go. When I was out of range, I inspected the tooth and saliva marks on my bag. Perhaps I should have whacked the dog with my pump.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Missouri looked like a different world. Soon after I crossed the border, everything started to look like a misty Amazon jungle. Plants grew with a passion in the humidity.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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The day ended in Golden City, Missouri. By this time, I was getting very lazy about cooking, so looked for my favorite kind of restaurant – “All You Can Eat.” There were several. I picked my dining spot by looking at their air conditioners. One of the air conditioners was dripping furiously. That was my restaurant. I wanted the restaurant whose air conditioner was working so well that it pulled streams of water out of the air.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Wayside Cafe Smorgasbord, all you can eat for $4.25. With the mismatched dishes and silverware, it looked more like someone’s house than a restaurant. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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I camped in the city park. There was even a shower there, which turned out to be not as bad as it first looked. The shower was a concrete building made especially for the 1976 bike ride. The level of workmanship was about what I could have done at home. I found a small bar of soap on the floor, and used that to wash with. First, I used pure hot, to burn away the itching, then pure cold, to prepare myself for the hot evening. After showering, while still damp, I rubbed some jungle juice into my arms and neck. A minute later, I felt an incredible sensation of heat everywhere I had put the repellent. It was like sunburn! I sweated profusely, and couldn’t cool off. I went outside, and felt better after a while.<\/p>\nit’s alarming, being hot and not able to cool off.<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The next morning, just as I started to get out of the city and into a rural area, two dogs began chasing me. I had to round a corner, and with the loss of speed, they easily caught up with me. I shouted “No!” but it didn’t work. I felt a tug a few feet … Continue reading Golden City, MO<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/bike1988\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/bike1988\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/bike1988\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/bike1988\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/bike1988\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=691"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/bike1988\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":709,"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/bike1988\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691\/revisions\/709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/bike1988\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/bike1988\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/bike1988\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}