Today was full of hills and headwinds. The weather was nice though and the wind started shifting to the east and south the last 10 miles of the day so that was an unexpected, pleasant surprise to end an otherwise pretty tough day on the bike. We ended up at Stapleton, NE after 87 miles. […]

Today was a much nicer day on the bike. We rode 103 miles to Red Willow State Recreation Area in Nebraska. The day started off with cool temps (56 degrees) and ended around 88. This statue was at a Buffalo Bill and Annie Oakley museum just outside of Oakley, KS where we stayed last night. […]

Hardest day yet. We had nice roads, favorable weather and generally flat terrain – but we had a strong and relentless headwind all day. It took considerable effort just to move forward, so it was a long, slow day on the bike. We ended up at Oakley, KS after 83 hard earned miles. Because we […]

Rest Day! We booked another night in the same hotel so we can relax in comfort today / tonight. Tasks completed today: laundry, drinking lots of water and eating lots of food (have to stay hydrated and replace calories even when resting so we can ride well tomorrow – Kevin’s cyclometer indicated he burned over […]

We rode 116 miles to Garden City, Kansas. It was hovering around or above 100 degrees all afternoon, but we had a strong tailwind today, so it was a pretty easy day of riding. The winds are shifting tomorrow – will be coming in strong from the north, and we are tired, so we are […]

The location of towns dictated how far we rode again today, but since it was 90 and sunny, we aren’t complaining about a shorter day. We rode 80 miles to Perryton, Texas. We are about 7 miles from the Oklahoma border. We’ve ridden 911 miles in Texas to date, so should end up being about […]

We rode 103 miles to Wheeler, Texas today. It was a pretty hard 100 – headwind all day, but that did at least cool off us some. I have several more pictures from today, but the internet signal just went bad and I can’t upload any more – I’ll share some of them in a […]

We rode 83 miles to Paducah, Texas. We would have liked to ridden a little farther, but the next town was 30+ miles away and we didn’t want to ride that far, so this is home for tonight. The heat was mild today – about like it was in Indiana, high around 86. We had […]

We rode just under 100 miles (99.7) to end up in Hamlin, Texas at their City Park. First night is free, additional nights $15, has electric and water hookups. All the parks we’ve stayed in have been really nice. It was an easy day on the bike – fresh legs, good roads, unusually low temperature […]

REST DAY! Your body lets you know when it needs a break – during our last trip, it was every 6 – 8 days, this trip is starting out the same way. Rest days are also needed to do some bike maintenance, laundry, cleaning up / re-organizing trailer, catching up on emails, etc. Today we […]