22 May 2011

All, We are safe and sound in St Louis.  We had a great first day ride to Columbus AFB, Ms with our BFF's Mary (sister) and Clay. It was a extremely hot 300 mile ride but the fellowship with my sister and Clay was great. The rooms on Columbus AFB were wonderful and you can't beat the $39.00 price. We headed out on Sunday at 0700 and headed north as Mary and Clay headed south. Annette and I had pretty good weather so we pressed on and laid down 480 miles before arriving at her sister's house in Wentzville Mo. (just west of St Louis).  Just as we were arriving into the town of Wentzville a storm blew up and Annette and I actually had to pull into an old deserted car wash for protection. It wasn't until we got to Annette's sisters that we learned about the storm/tornado in Joplin Mo. Please pray for those folks that lost both love ones and everything else. Thanks to all for prayers of protection after seeing the storms that were all around us we are again reminded of God's Grace in our lives. We will be experiencing more storms this week here in Wentzville so please continue praying for better weather. We will be hanging here with family until June 1st and then heading to Michigan. Love to all family and friends, the pics. are of the bike all packed ready to go and the house is where we are staying with Annette's sister and family.