Bicycling the Lewis & Clark Trail
Sioux City to Onawa, IA

Thursday, August 26, 2004
Distance Cycled: 49 miles
Vertically Climbed: 210 feet
Average Speed: 12.6 mph

Last night we went to a movie. Today we did not rush to get started because the weather report was that we would have showers early in the morning. By the time we got started the sun was shinning and the temperature was 68 degrees. We started riding after 8:00. As we headed out of town, we got lost and had to backtrack. We finally got on the right road and began climbing up and down a couple of hills. At the top of one hill we found the grave site of the only member of the Lewis and Clark expedition to die. He was Sergeant Floyd and a monument has been erected over his grave.

After leaving Sergeant Floyd's grave site, we went down a steep hill and that was the last hill we encountered before we reached our motel for the night. On the way to the motel we stopped two times for ice cream and before taking our showers, we left the motel and ate lunch.

We returned to the motel, took showers and rested until we found out that a replica of the original Lewis and Clark Keelboat was located 2 miles from the motel. We put on our dirty clothes, took the bicycles out of the motel and headed to the Missouri River where we looked, and climbed on the replica boats.

We took some pictures and then headed back to the motel to take another shower before heading to dinner. It was a great day a little hot but little wind. After dinner we bought a map of Omaha Nebraska, after being in small towns for over a month, we feel we need to have a map of a town that is over 350,000. Onawa has a population of 3,091, which is what we are used to.