Ozark, United States

The days ride took us out of Missouri and into Illinois, aka The Land of Lincoln. More importantly it is the home of Popeye. The swollen Mississippi was an impressive sight that day, but what we were really looking forward to was the prospect of ...

... for as tenuous a reason as those for staying a Shelbyville - she remembers an American band from the 70's called the Ozark Mountain Daredevils, although couldn't recall a single song title! Even though we were travelling rapidly to the south, we couldn't ...

... , when the government was handing out (Indian) land in lotteries and land grabs and other democratic distributions of chance, the Ozark Mountains were sort of the booby prize. They weren't already covered in grass but trees, they were fairly remote and ...

On our way...