{"id":730,"date":"1988-08-15T02:45:00","date_gmt":"1988-08-15T02:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/bike1988\/?p=730"},"modified":"2026-08-18T03:33:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T03:33:17","slug":"farmington-mo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/bike1988\/farmington-mo\/","title":{"rendered":"Farmington, MO"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Speed limit 23.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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On Monday, I headed out for Farmington. At this point little hills started to rise out of the road. There was a lot of up and down, and blind hills every few hundred yards. I was shocked to find that almost all the cars waited patiently behind me until I got to the crest of a hill. Such courtesy would never be seen in San Jose.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Full Gospel outdoor church.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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I took a wrong turn and ended up taking road W instead of 21. It was actually shorter. Also, although it was not marked on the map, W took me to this great store in Williams. There was no water in the store, but I was allowed to go out back and use the well pipe.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The store was under construction. No bathroom, but I used the portable toilet.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The high for the day was 105– 110 with the heat factor. Another night for motel luxury. In Farmington, I couldn’t find any cheap motels. There was good old Best Western, at $40, and the Lodge of the Knights, at $38. I went for the Knight’s Lodge.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Heat Factor 110.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Unfortunately, the singles at the Knight’s Lodge were all upstairs, and the Queens downstairs were all taken. I decided it was worth an extra $2, and decided to take a King-size bed downstairs for $40.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Such luxury! I was really getting spoiled. The king bed was big enough for me to lie on CROSSWISE; in fact, five people could have comfortably slept in that bed. The bathroom was huge! I parked my bike in it, and still had lots of room to move around in there.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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As there were no restaurants nearby, I ordered pizza delivery. After ordering, I started killing flies. It pleased me greatly to get all eight of them. I arranged these artistically in the ashtray. Not long after this, the pizza arrived. I sat on the bed in my air-conditioned room, eating pizza and watching cable TV. One of my favorite channels was The Weather Channel. I found out what the weather was like in the San Francisco bay area. I heard about the weather in Hawaii. And, of course, I had a vested interest in the local weather. The forecast was 100-105 for the next two days, very humid.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Huge bed, air conditioning, shower, pizza delivery and the Weather Channel. That was living!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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