Choose Faith not Fear

September 16, Day 76 of TheHopeLine Tour of 2014

On Sunday, we couldn’t wait to get away from the canned bicycle maps. They were sending us farther into Ozark country, with its beauty, but also with its steep hills and lack of services. We’d had enough of that. Fast forward to today: now what? How do we get to Cape Girardeau and back on the maps?

We began our route meandering under overcast skies. It was another day for lettered routes. If a route in Missouri is denoted with one letter (A), or...