Day Thirty

Woah, a whole new decade of days on the road. Today we rode 62 miles from Lyndon, KS to Cottonwood Falls, KS.

It was by far the hottest day I've ever experienced. We saw 99 degrees with a "feels like" of 107. Hot. So we rode really slowly and just plugged along. We stopped pretty often and hung out in the shade. When we would stop a bit I'd start to feel light headed, so I'd just sit for a few minutes, drink some water, then do a few more miles.

Eventually we made it to Emporia. We stopped at a gas station and bought some drink (7Up actually, peculiar purchase but it was delicious and refreshing.) We sat inside to drink them, and met a new fried Terrance. He was this older guy, retiredc who was getting coffee at the gas station. We chatted with him for about an hour. He was great, and new a lot about all of the local areas. He had traveled to a lot of exciting places too (especially Alaska, he got me all excited to go there some day. He was an awesome guy, and we were glad to have made our new friend.

We made a great trip to Goodwill too. We found some great t-shirts! Excellent. Then we went to eat at Subway. If you can't tell, we were doing everything we could to stay out of the heat. At that point it was about 6:00 and had started cooling down, so we headed out and did our last 20 miles.

We stayed at this town park THAT HAD A POOL! They were just closing, so we awkwardly went in and swam for a few minutes. We made some conversation with the locals, but it was a pretty quick dip. Then we got dinner at Casey's General Store, and headed to bed.

Tomorrow: Newton, KS.