My cross Missouri bike ride including Katy and Rock Island

I used this page plus the two Facebook groups to plan my trip, so I thought I would share my Facebook post here. If you plan to do the whole trail, do your homework. As the old saying goes, if you fail to plan, you plan to fail.
From my Facebook:
I just rode my bicycle across the entire state of Missouri, plus about 31 miles into Illinois crossing the Mississippi via a river ferry. Later going back across the Mississippi via the historic Old Chain of Rocks Bridge, ending my ride at the Gateway Arch and Busch Stadium. The Cardinals were about to play and it was a very fun environment. That atmosphere made me realize why some people want to see the Royals have a stadium downtown. This bike ride took six days and 394 miles, starting on Monday, Labor Day and concluding yesterday, the twentieth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. Garmin does not have the ability to track multi-day rides, perhaps I can merge them later with an app. I rode all of the Rock Island trail and almost all of the Katy trail. The majority of the trip was gravel trail, some paved trail and perhaps 35 miles on streets or highway. I did not camp, opting to stay in AirBnB and hotels, allowing me to travel lighter plus have showers and good rest. My bike and I caught the Amtrak back to Kansas City.
I want to give a shout out to Platte County Parks 100 mile challenge for their brilliant idea to motivate residents to be active during COVID in 2020. They were unable to host the usual activities of organized bike rides and paddling events (due to COVID) so they challenged residents to complete 100 miles of activities in 100 days. That gave me the motivation to do it and I kept going. No way I would have ever considered doing anything like this a year ago. I lost 30 pounds and have improved my health.

Day one Westwood, KS to Pleasant Hill, MO 36 miles
Day two P Hill to Sedalia 71 miles
Day three Sedalia to Columbia 68 miles
Day four Columbia to Hermann 82 miles
Day five Hermann to St Charles 67 miles
Day six St Charles to St Louis 69 miles

way to go!

what was your route from westwood to pleasant hill.did use google maps

Cut and paste the link below to get details of the Garmin course. I did look at maps ahead of time, but I navigated most of this in my head. I tracked my route on my Garmin trip computer and saved it. I had no problems with traffic on a holiday Monday even though I had to wait a few moments to cross a couple streets.

https://connect.garmin.com/modern/course/75922391

If interested, here is my planned course from Kansas to Illinois and down to St Louis. I skipped Jeff City because it would have added about 8 miles to my 82 mile ride from COMO to Hermann.

https://connect.garmin.com/modern/course/76097473