I chose to stick to back roads today, and they turned out to be hilly, but not unreasonably so, and very lightly trafficked. The only interesting thing that happened was that I passed throuugh the town of Humansville, which was not an interesting town, but it has a neat name.
I noticed today that all the fields since Jeff City have been hay or pasture, not corn or soybeans. Maybe that partly explains the diminished number of crickets I'm hearing.
47.8 mi