Well, you knew it would eventually happen....I had a full bore, maximum amp, no holds barred meltdown after a hot, windy, hot, late day riding into Newton. It was meant to be a 74 mile trip, (which is alot but not the maximum for this trip) that turned into 80 and believe me that additional 6 miles in 105* ( a new record high, by the way) and 32mph wind gusts from the south are not trivial.
So from about 2:30 until we finally arrived at 4:00, I cussed Kansas and swore that I was taking the next day off and then the following day I would be driving a U haul toward Pueblo because "I finally get what Kansas is trying to say" and "I've had enough of this.....stuff...." and "I'm.done.with.Kansas.heat.period". And I told Sam so on the way to dinner. He calmly replied, "Let's try to get a good nights sleep, take tomorrow off and we'll talk about it." I knew what that meant. We did take the following day off and thoroughly enjoyed the hospitality and air conditioning and superb cooking and great conversation of our Warm Showers host, Ken. Ken is also a cyclo-tourist, and has been for alot longer than either of us and although we were his first warm showers guests, he knew exactly what we needed. He welcomed us into his cool, lovely home that is a mix of retro and minimalism that charmed me. We ate, drank good wine, talked and talked, napped and ate more.
Ken was there to see us off at 7am today with a promise that it was to be cooler (100*) and friendlier winds. It was a late start and I didn't know where we'd end up but we were aimed for Sterling. We made it. Meltdown over; but there is a U haul dealer in Larned...I checked.
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