End of the Line - June 2025 One of the bicycle paths in Marshalltown actually extends south of town for 15 miles to Melbourne, Iowa. The bike path doesn’t actually go into town on county road 285, but instead cuts under US 330 and ends at a small gravel parking lot on Gerhart Ave. I really like the way the box culvert under 330 looks… and photographs. The tunnel is long enough that the other end appears as a small square of light against the almost black of the tunnel. It almost looks like someone left a TV on in a dark room. My pedal-assist ebike has a maximum range of just over 20 miles and this end of trail is over 17 miles from our condo. So unless I do a LOT of manual pedalling or bring along a second battery, this end of trail is beyond my reach. I am 77 years old and there are several really steep hills on the way to Melbourne. My spare battery- wrapped in an old towel- straps neatly just above my rear baskets. I tried going back without changing batteries, but at the first hill I had no assist to my pedaling and switched batteries. MWM