Still Biking in Kansas

Still Biking in Kansas

Wednesday 5^th June, 2019

Day 26

Location: Junction City to Topeka, KS

Distance: 83 miles

Temp: 67 – 93 F 

Dew point:  65 F

    Winds:  non-issue

Cumulative climbing distance:  4,052 ft

Cumulative descending distance:  4,137 ft

 

Total we crossed the halfway point in our journey from LA to Boston.  The total distance is 3,410 miles and we have come 1,734 miles.  I never think about the total distance as it is too daunting but rather think exclusively about we need to accomplish today.

 

The journey across Kansas is/has become a never-ending grind.  Today we entered rolling hilly terrain, as one can observe from the cumulative climbing and descending data:  4,052 ft up and 4,137 ft down.  After all the climbing and we are basically at the same elevation that we started - 1100 ft.  The afternoon heat and humidity was the worst on the entire trip.

A little distraction at today's morning SAG wagon stop.

 Stopped in a very small country town of Dover for mid-afternoon pie on our travels to Topeka.

 

Typical photo of the day.  Note the never-ending rolling hills. 

 

 

 

The countryside is becoming for forested, smaller fields, less irrigation, more hay and pastures, more horses.

 

 

 

Stopped in a very small country town of Dover for mid-afternoon pie at small café with true rural mid-America look.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Today we biked on typical "blue" highways running about 10 south of Interstate I-70.  This area is noted for the stone buildings made of limestone blocks.

Note the limestone layers in this road bank.

 

 

 Selection of limestone buildings:  house, barn and main street store (1902).

Many of the farm houses had various wood cravings in their front yards.