A pretty good day of about 105 miles. The first 40 were on two different trails, the Sam Valobean from Pere Marquette to Alton and then through Alton to the Confluence Trail to Cahokia. Having ridden the Sam Valobean many years ago I was dissappointed to see what bad shape it is in now, another victum of the Illinois fiscal crisis I guess. The confluence trail was fine but had a gravel section and the team elected to ride on Hwy. 3 instead. At the end on the trail we loaded into the van for a 8 mile ride through East St. Louis and had a nice lunch midway at a small diner along Rt 3. After lunch we resumed our ride in Cahokia and rode to what remains of the old town of Vallmeyer. In 1993 the town was flooded when the levee broke. Most residents took a goverrnment buy ouyt and moved on, knowing that the flooding could happen again. Some stayed adr there is still a random house standing here and there. Vallmeyer has now been rebuild on the top of the bluff safe from the Mississippi river.
We also met two guys fgrom Chicago who were riding to New Orleans from Chicago, more on that later.
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