Distance: 103.8 miles
With two state lines and a time zone change, Friday was a significant day for us! We slowly woke up in the comfort of the Otis Lutheran Church and began packing/eating all the goodies we recieved, I'm pretty sure I had enough sugar to kill a horse. (And by the way, thanks to you who sent stuff, it does mean a lot) we were eventually able to pack what we didn't eat (not much actually, I'm a voracious eater) and I didn't develop diabetes! So we set off from the promised land of Otis and pressed eastward along 34. We passed several hamlets along the way and stopped in Wray for a quick snack of delicious cookies and whatnot. We continued east until POW! We hit Nebraska! And that is no exaggeration, they had recently tore up the road to repave it, the result being a super bump in the road, and corresponding thud. We stopped to take pictures at the sign (motto: The Good Life, which apparently includes shooting as the sign was riddled with bullet holes) when we met a group of cyclists heading from San Francisco to New York. They were cool guys, but not as cool as us because they had a support group, gaw!!!
We continued toward the tiny town of Haigler and devoured lunch, which for me, was mostly the delicious goodies from Otis, God bless that place. After eating and christening Nebraska, we moved south into Kansas!
Now, there are some facts about Kansas you should know:
1. Kansas is NOT flat like a pancake. It is more like a waffle, mostly flat but all kinds of ridges in it. The first thing we did in the state was climb a big hill. Somebody get Kansas one of those trendy "stereotype me" shirts from UVA. It would say, "I am not flat, Wyoming keeps spreading rumors." poor Kansas.
2. Kansas is hot and especially humid. Humidity is bad because you can't sweat as easily so you always feel dirty, even at night. Of course the real tragedy is the fact that my hair, having grown since the trip started (duh) is getting frumpy. Geez.
Anyway, we passed a lot of construction (Kansas has nice roads) and moved on for several dozen uneventful miles until Bird City! Not only is this place the only Bird City in the US, it has the gnarliest park we've ever seen in a small town. Complete with a pool, field, tank (yes), and cool and slightly dangerous rope structures, we were in heaven. We went to the local steakhouse called Big Ed's and ate some delicious non-junk food, one of the best steaks I ever did have. We returned to our cool park and proceeded to donate our blood to the evidently ravenous mosquito population (they go after your face!). That's the gist of it all, I'll explain details when I get back because my thumbs hurt and I hate iPhones.
2:1 odds I get arthritis before diabetes,
Sam "steakcrusher" Townsend
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