Guymon,Ok to Liberal, Ks
Miles: 46.0
Time: 3:24
Average: 13.5 mph
Max: 24 mph
Total Ascent: 893 ft
Est Calories: 3,893
Today was a midweek (day 5 of 9 straight riding days) mini-day. Basically a casual riding day just to keep the tour going, but not a challenging day. The official day was less than 40 miles, but we took a side trip to the Mid-American Air Museum in Liberal, Kansas. I was primarily loaded with private and experimental aircraft with a few serious military aircraft, like Cobra coppers, and Jets. The side trip was enhanced by the fact that, Nancy, the older women on the ride at 66, was a pilot since college. Her original plane was CANVAS skinned, not metal. Needless to say, she added a lot of commentary to the history of the these older planes. They even had a version of her old plane in the museum.
As mentioned in the last blog, we moved into Kansas today, and the city of Liberal is the old "yellow brick road" town, but we did not look for Dorothy's house. On the way to Liberal, we stopped in Hooker, Kansas (see above). And, no, Kansas is not the end of the world despite the Welcome to Kansas sign above.
We stopped at Pizza Hut for a salad and personal pan pizza, and I normally change to my "civilian" glasses from my sports glasses for indoors. As we departed and re-dressed in the biking helmet, etc, I did not change the glasses back to the sport glasses because the hotel was only about 500 feet down the road. So I managed to leave the civilian glass case near the bushes outside the Pizza Hut. Once settling at the hotel I recognized what may have happened, and road back to the Pizza Hut to try to find the case. I found the pad I had in the case, but no case. Just another senior moment. I will try to get a new case at the KMart the day after next.
I noticed a bubble forming on the front tire of the bike yesterday, but was too tired to deal with it. So, at the end of today I had the pleasure of changing out the tire for a new one at the hotel. It turns out that there was a cut in the tire that weaked the side wall of the tire, which is what caused the bulge to form. Fortunately, the slow easy day did not cause any tire problems on the road. Tomorrow we move back into the longer days, being +80 mile days and early departures. See ya..............
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