{"id":711,"date":"1988-08-12T19:30:00","date_gmt":"1988-08-12T19:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/bike1988\/?p=711"},"modified":"2026-08-17T22:52:37","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T22:52:37","slug":"houston-mo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/bike1988\/houston-mo\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston, MO"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The next day, I did a lot of up and down in the Ozarks. Although the map said 60 miles, my odometer read 67 miles. There were lots of rolled-over turtles on the road. Their natural defense didn’t protect them against two-ton cars.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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I raced into Houston at 3:43 PM, just in case there was General Delivery for me. I got to the post office at ten to four, but there was nothing waiting for me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Houston city park, where I camped, was the roach capital of the midwest. They averaged about 1.5 inches long. The pavilion was full of them, so I didn’t want to sleep there. I didn’t relish the thought of large roaches crawling all over me during the night. I decided to set up my pad on the concrete outside, under the light, which would hopefully repel roaches. It was Friday night, and all kinds of delinquent kids kept visiting the park.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Welcome to Houston, Missouri. Smaller than where I grew up in Honolulu. If I had not been solo, we probably would not have camped in this City Park.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The next day, I did a lot of up and down in the Ozarks. Although the map said 60 miles, my odometer read 67 miles. There were lots of rolled-over turtles on the road. Their natural defense didn’t protect them against two-ton cars. I raced into Houston at 3:43 PM, just in case there was … Continue reading Houston, 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\/711"}],"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=711"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/bike1988\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":717,"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/bike1988\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711\/revisions\/717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/bike1988\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/bike1988\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/bike1988\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}