Rick Shaw from St Charles on 3/13/2010 12:27:22 AM:
I concur with Mark......beware of the racoons. If you have something that smells remotely edible...the raccoons will try to get into it. Did an overnight with two toddlers at Klondike Park. After yelling and chucking rocks at the little masked &*@#$%&* in the middle of the night (they were trying to get into the Chariot child carrier....possibly attracted by residual goldfish (well known toddler forage).....), I finally ended up putting the child carrier on top of the picnic table shelter roof which ended our little skirmish. I once toured from Anchorage, AK to eastern Oklahoma (many miles of bear country)......and the Klondike incident was one of my most restless cycle touring nights. Moral of the story....beware of the raccoons. If you have anything that smells edible, place it somewhere/someway that raccoons are disinclined to attempt to retrieve it. By the way....if you end up in St. Charles and are tired of peddalling, look up St. Charles Pedicab to get you around historic downtown St. Charles. Ride on.