Sunday Oct. 5, 2014

It turned out to be a beautiful day today. We got a late start because someone slept in. But the crew deserves a rest. We borrowed the marina’s courtesy car, a Dodge Mini Van to go into St. Charles today. I should mention that many of the marinas have cars available for transients. All you do is sign a waiver and let them copy your driver’s license and off you go. As a courtesy for letting us use the car I always put some gas in it but the marinas never tell you to. We headed into town forewarned by the marina manager that there was a bike race going on blocking our way into town. As we proceeded into town we were waved thru so no problem. As we approached St. Charles we kept seeing motorcycles, and more motorcycles. It was the Rat Run which is a big party at a number of bars along the highway into town. More motorcycles then I have ever seen.

 

In town mean while we parked the car and heard this commotion one block over and found the finish line for the Mo’Cowbell marathon and half marathon. The historic town of St. Charles was really jumping. The have a very quaint downtown with many shops and restaurants. We returned to the boat around 4:30 after having a full say sight seeing.