Hello everyone! Don't be surprised if this one is really short! We're all melting here in Kansas! Today we rode from Beloit, KS to Phillipsburg, KS. It was an 86 mile day in the upper 90s with a headwind the whole time. Lately I have been picking people to ride with in the morning and sticking with them the whole day. Today Emily and I rode together and endured the abuse from the sun. The scenery is getting closer to my Oklahoma view.. so there's not much to talk about there. We stopped in Cawker City at the big twine ball. We all were taking pictures and having fun when a woman pulled up. This woman was the twine ball keeper and had a spool of twine in her back seat and she let us each wrap a time or two around the ball of twine.. So we got to add twine to the record setting ball! It was awesome! Another achievement for today is that we're officially over the halfway point for being halfway across the continental U.S.! Apparently the mark is around Downs, KS which we passed through early in the day. We're on the downhill slide.
Yesterday we rode from Clay Center to Beloit, KS. It was a 65 mile day that was similar to today. It was very hot and really flat. After about 15 miles, there was a giant cut-out metal indian thing sitting on the top of a hill. Kira and I decided it would be an excellent idea to climb to the top of the hill to take pictures with the "statue." I'm not sure whether to call it a statue or not because it was just a metal cut-out thing. Well.. anyway.. the "statue" looked really close, but 20 mins later we were at the top and taking pictures. The group had mostly passed by the time we got back to the road, so we hung at the back of the group. We caught up with Laura a ways down the road and all rode the rest of the day together. Although it was hot and windy we managed to find a windmill to climb all over and take pictures with it. It was great.
It's weird that when biking across the country that the most miserable weather conditions are bearable and really don't seem to phase us anymore. Basically, biking across the country is an amazing experience and I think it will help put a lot of things in perspective when I get home.
On a side note - we're 20 miles away from Nebraska right now and I'm debating on whether I should side trip there or not. If it rains, I'm totally going. It's 2 hours more of riding.. but it would add another state onto my total for the trip. I can't believe we've conquered Virgina, West Virginia, Ohio, Kentucky (side trip!), Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, and we'll be done with Kansas soon.
Well.. obviously heat and dehydration are setting in so I'm going to go drink more water and relax. (my life is so difficult!) haha. Hopefully everyone out there is enjoying their air conditioning and cars!
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I'm excited to see pictures of this ball of twine. That is pretty awesome that its a record setting ball and you guys got to add twine to it! So did you side trip it to Nebraska? I hope so! Oh, I'm definitely enjoying my AC and my car ; ) I took my youth group outside to play today and we all came back in pretty sweaty. We were only outside for about 20 minutes. I don't know how you're doing it. I'd be dying from the heat! Good job cutie!
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