{"id":718,"date":"1988-08-13T23:39:00","date_gmt":"1988-08-13T23:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/bike1988\/?p=718"},"modified":"2026-08-18T03:09:41","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T03:09:41","slug":"ellington-mo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/bike1988\/ellington-mo\/","title":{"rendered":"Ellington, MO"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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In the morning, I witnessed the fascinating spectacle of dragonflies feeding. A squadron of about 20 of them cooperatively would buzz low along the grass. This scared up a swarm of mosquitoes, leafhoppers, and gnats. Within 5 seconds, the squadron had scooped up all the flying insects, and moved along for another pass.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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The day’s ride included an exhausting killer hill just after Alley Springs. I came to the top, rounded the corner, and discovered that it went up even more! Thank goodness there was the Country Junction Trading Post at the real crest.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Country Junction Trading Post, with locals just hanging out. I noticed that in Kansas and Missouri, they counted out every penny of change. If I gave the store a dollar for a 61\u00a2 soda, they would go “sixty-two, sixty-three, sizty-four, sixty-five, seventy-five, a dollar.”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Catfish was a big thing. Look at this Catfish special for $3.50<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Canoeing.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A lot of the reqion was up-and-down, up-and-down<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Since the next day was Sunday, I checked into the Hub City Motel in Ellington. Just $19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sunday, August 14, 1988<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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I spent the next day in Ellington, Missouri. After attending the local Baptist Church, Dan and Shady Warden invited me out to lunch. It was a pleasant lunch at the Hub City Restaurant. Afterwards, I wanted to offer to leave the tip, but realized I only had a twenty in my wallet. Looking back, I should have stated I would leave the tip, then go to the register to break the twenty. But I was too slow, and Dan embarrassed me by leaving the tip, also.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Dan warden was huge, like 6-10. Shady reminded me of the woman who did the “At Mervyn’s Today” commercial. They have 4 children – Amy, who will be a junior in high school, Shanda, who is 6, another 19-year old daughter in Colorado Springs, and a 10-year old son away visting grandparents. Dan: “Funny thing about iced tea. You boil it, then put ice in to make it cold. You put lemon in to make it sour, then sugar to make it sweet.”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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After lunch, I visited the local laundromat. Sunday was a convenient day to do laundry, although I didn’t have to wash my clothes every Sunday. There was no vending machine with the mini-boxes of soap there, so I used shampoo. This worked out well, since I bought a 7-ounce bottle at the store, and could only carry 4 ounces in my container.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My second best meal on the whole trip was that evening, at Timmer’s Restaurant. The fresh catfish was scrumptious! And the whole dinner was only about $6, including beverage. Catfish on a menu usually said “allow 25 minutes for preparation,” but this was definitely worth the wait.<\/p>\nAlso, the custom seemed to be that all iced teas were bottomless.<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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