Garden City, Kansas - Day 23

Hi everyone from Garden City, Ks.,
Yes, we really are in Kansas for our first night of 6 or 7 – the last part of Colorado was very similar to Kansas. As you can see from the welcome sign with my roommate, Marilyn, we really are here!!



We started riding around 7 this morning and I didn’t get in until 6 because the time changed today – we are now in Central Time – just 1 hr. behind the east coast. This was cruel on a century day! We had another long day and I had another PR – two back to back centuries!!!
The cue sheet just said get on Rt. 50 East – go 104 miles, exit and go another ½ mile into the motel!! Basically the ride was more of what we did yesterday – very hot – no shade trees to be found – nice wide shoulder and basically nothing to look at but fields as far as you can see!

I did have one interesting part of the ride – I was chased uphill by a dog – but, when I screamed “No”, “Go Home” and he finally relented!!

They do have some very long trains here - yesterday I counted the cars on one and there were 118 cars and 4 engines - two at the beginning and two at the end!



It is interesting that a lot of the towns have the same name as those back home – “Syracuse”?!!?


There are lots of irrigation systems just like we had on the farm and we saw several cattle fields and a couple of field farms.
Tomorrow we have a short day – I say this cautiously because it seems every time I say that, for some reason or another it turns into a long day. Today I had 50 of the 107 miles done by 11:15. We have 51 tomorrow, but aren’t starting to ride until 8 and we will be riding into Dodge City!! This should prove interesting and hopefully give a little time to recoup after our two long days today and yesterday!!

Today's hurrah goes to my roommate, Marilyn, because she stayed with me when I was really hurting - she got me through to the end so I can now say I have done two back to back century plus rides!!

Thank God for the safety, health, and energy!