Our rest day in Kansas City was full of excitement and good times, as we watched our third baseball game of the trip and smashed enough of their world famous BBQ to make any doctor cringe…
We started the day by driving back to the Kansas state sign where we had stopped to finally put a cap on our longest day. What we didn’t realize is we ended up creating back-to-back 100 mile days for ourselves…
The first full day of Colorado very much resembled the scenery of Utah. The sun was hot, air was dry, and red-tinted rocks were jutting out of the earth, making for a beautiful ride…
Today proved itself to be one of the most scenic and beautiful days that we have had yet! It was thankfully filled with lots of downhill very little wind, making the 60 mile day a little easier. As Erik said, the landscape matched that of “Tatooine” in Star Wars haha full of desert and hot air…
Today brought us onto the loneliest road in America, Highway 50, and in similar fashion, it led us away from nearly all civilization. We landed in Middlegate, a small “town” with a whooping 17 residents. Although they lacked in numbers, they more and made up for it in accommodations and spirit…