calm wind

overall another nice day. started out in leoti, KS at the high school and made it to ness city, KS 81 miles later. after owning colorado, many of us decided to show our pride by wearing the infamous colorado socks. below from top, nate's left foot, jen's left and my right.

luckily the winds stayed pretty calm today sitting in the teens instead of the 30-50mph range like yesterday. was a headwind of some variety for most of the day but the pacelines diffused the wind nicely. our first rest stop was in scott city where we stopped at "ma and pa's" mostly for coffee and cocoa but some brave souls tried some interesting hotdog concoction. from left: kt beck, dave, nate, kel, erin, joe, jen, van and bobby (marianne is behind bobby but you can't really see her face)

continued to a town called, get this "dighton". it was pretty run down but support found frigid creme who gave us half off everything including chicken tenders (yes!).

i took this photo because i am a little curious about the pizza burger and the nacho pies.

group at frigid creme

the day was not boring only because we stayed in pacelines the entire day. it is hard to explain how empty this state and eastern colorado actually is. literally you bike for miles and see nothing but fields and maybe, just maybe a silo in the distance. the "cities" are actually just a few silos and their is a train track that is never used. it might just be that we have been on highway 96 for the last three days. glad im not doing this alone. peace.

almost forgot, i had a "what am i doing moment" a little bit ago. so it was 630 on a saturday night, im sitting in a high school gymnasium eating cereal for dinner. a little sad.