Day One: in the books

Just got settled into a hotel outside of Dayton, OH where we will sleep for the night. Observations: fuck Ohio. Drivers are shit. No one wears a mask despite mask ordinances, and the hotel despite advertising a "cleaning" is anything but. Will look forward to seeing Ohio in the rear view tomorrow. 

Outside of that, today was a pretty good day. We got a little further than expected, the kids were mostly good, and the weather was dry and clear. 

It's a bit of a pain bringing bikes and some key bags into the hotel, but only took me 3 trips so not too bad. 

Looking forward to tomorrow.. Gateway Arch, and hopefully landing somewhere in Western Kansas to end day 2. None of the fam (besides me) has crossed the mighty Mississippi so that will be good stuff also. Time for sleep, TTFN

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