Today I depart for a a few days of biking inn-to-inn on the Katy Trail in Missouri. This is something I’ve wanted to do for ages, so I’m far more excited than I usually get about a domestic writing trip. The hard part is, I have to carry all my things with me as I’m going independently, not on some tour where the luggage gets transferred (like I did when biking in the Czech Republic). On Day 4 I take an Amtrak train back to St. Louis.