Day 24 Garden City, KS to Dodge City, KS
Without a doubt, this 51 mile ride was the easiest ride thus far. We slept in until 0620 and didn't really blast off until about 0715. From the outset, the conditions were cool and clear with barely a breeze moving from any direction.
Larry and I decided to ride together for the duration and were swapping the lead every 1/2 mile just moving smartly and easily. After about 20 miles, Tim caught us and worked with us to the very end. With three strong amigos working together, we were pushing 23-26 lots of the time with no one hurting or suffering. And with the clean, smooth pavement, even a straight, long road in the middle of Kansas can be a lot of fun.
We had some great nasal stimulation yet again and I remembered how odd I always thought that baseball field next to the paper mill in Camden, Arkansas always looked. How could any baseball player focus on the game with that kind of distraction. Well friends, now I know. If you are working hard enough and distracted enough you don't even notice the scents floating in the air. Much.
We rolled into the Comfort Inn at 0930 and immediately went to the breakfast buffet to get a picture that confirms Larry and Tim and Steve made it to the Continental breakfast before it closed. I sure enjoyed that second cup of coffee 51 miles down the road after the first one!
Since we arrived early, we all explored this "Cowboy Capitol of the World" here in Dodge City. After walking about 4 miles to get a new camera battery, I joined a group of our folks and took the trolley tour around Dodge City.
In just a couple of hours I saw historic Fort Dodge, which is now the Kansas Home for Veterans. It was really cool to see the old Army post housing and buildings which now serve some 400 great retired Americans.
We also got a glimpse of the stockyards that hold 1.4 million cows a year! I'm sure you are thinking the same thing as I am . . . Phew! Every day, 4,600 cows give their lives so that others may dine. And on a happier note, dairy farmers from around Kansas bring their young cows to these stockyards to fatten them up for about 3 months and then they return to their original homes. It seems that their owners don't have enough grazing land to fill them out so they come "TDY" to Dodge City.
After the tour, we had our daily rap session and headed to King's Chinese Food for dinner, and then went to Boot Hill to watch a great gun fight and loooooooooooooong vaudeville shoe. The next time our leader, Mike Munk makes a recommendation to see something I will make sure to use my Chamois Butt'r before I attend. It was fun but too looooooooooong.
Off to bed and 85 miles and an old Army Fort along the way.
Larry and I decided to ride together for the duration and were swapping the lead every 1/2 mile just moving smartly and easily. After about 20 miles, Tim caught us and worked with us to the very end. With three strong amigos working together, we were pushing 23-26 lots of the time with no one hurting or suffering. And with the clean, smooth pavement, even a straight, long road in the middle of Kansas can be a lot of fun.
We had some great nasal stimulation yet again and I remembered how odd I always thought that baseball field next to the paper mill in Camden, Arkansas always looked. How could any baseball player focus on the game with that kind of distraction. Well friends, now I know. If you are working hard enough and distracted enough you don't even notice the scents floating in the air. Much.
We rolled into the Comfort Inn at 0930 and immediately went to the breakfast buffet to get a picture that confirms Larry and Tim and Steve made it to the Continental breakfast before it closed. I sure enjoyed that second cup of coffee 51 miles down the road after the first one!
Since we arrived early, we all explored this "Cowboy Capitol of the World" here in Dodge City. After walking about 4 miles to get a new camera battery, I joined a group of our folks and took the trolley tour around Dodge City.
In just a couple of hours I saw historic Fort Dodge, which is now the Kansas Home for Veterans. It was really cool to see the old Army post housing and buildings which now serve some 400 great retired Americans.
We also got a glimpse of the stockyards that hold 1.4 million cows a year! I'm sure you are thinking the same thing as I am . . . Phew! Every day, 4,600 cows give their lives so that others may dine. And on a happier note, dairy farmers from around Kansas bring their young cows to these stockyards to fatten them up for about 3 months and then they return to their original homes. It seems that their owners don't have enough grazing land to fill them out so they come "TDY" to Dodge City.
After the tour, we had our daily rap session and headed to King's Chinese Food for dinner, and then went to Boot Hill to watch a great gun fight and loooooooooooooong vaudeville shoe. The next time our leader, Mike Munk makes a recommendation to see something I will make sure to use my Chamois Butt'r before I attend. It was fun but too looooooooooong.
Off to bed and 85 miles and an old Army Fort along the way.
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