This morning I got a ride from Marcus, my host for last night, a few miles north to get me to the highway I was taking. There was a fair amount of traffic but I had a 10 foot shoulder so it wasn’t too bad to ride on.
I stopped in the outskirts of Kansas City to look for a Brooks saddle, but the two shops I visited and six I called did not carry them. I’ll check some more shops tomorrow then just have one delivered to Denver if I continue to have no luck.
Connecting to another highway, I made way across to the south of the city. Unfortunately there was road construction which turned it into a 2 lane highway with no shoulder. Even worse, there was a tall curb so I couldn’t pull over to let trucks pass. Lots of very close trucks. Eventually the highway turned into a wide suburban sprawl with lots of traffic and I passed into Kansas.
Whoever said Kansas was flat was wrong. Rolling hills continued throughout the day, and I ran into a few very steep 200ish foot climbs towards the end of the day. I had wanted to go 90some miles to a campground but I called it a day at a motel in the town of De Soto, Kansas.
Today’s mileage: 82 miles.
Total: 1756 miles
OK, nobody else asked, so I will: Why is the color of the right shoe different from the color of the left show? By the way, your photos have continued to improve. I especially like the curving roads and “no guns” signs. Imagine what you could be capturing if you could use something better than an iPhone.
So how can I, or anybody else, fix a typo? That should be “left shoe,” not “left show.”
I was riding in the shoulder and the brush on the side hadn’t been cleared recently and so my right foot continually hitting plants turned it green.
Regarding editing, I can edit everyone’s comments but I am not sure if it is possible for people to edit their own comments. That would require some sort of authentication.
How did the Brooks saddle work out? I love mine.
From my trip across the US, I also found out that the plains are anything but flat…