This was another day you just wanted to stay in bed! But I dressed up & hit the road in the mist & fog @ 8:00. My goal was to simply make it 25 miles to Garden City & use the rest of the day to try & heal up from the tough rides of the previous day’s & try & figure out this cold / flu or whatever it is. I made my way through the fog & rain into Garden City, a rather large town with plenty of services.I stopped @ McDonalds for breakfast , coffee & to thaw out. I called home & talked to my wife about staying here for the day & wait out the weather that included bad storms etc. & maybe stop @ a doctor for an opinion on my cold. She agreed. I changed out of my sweat & rain soaked cloths into some dries & headed out for a hotel. Riding through town I changed my mind. I decided I didn’t need a doctor , I needed to put some miles in & head east. Like Cantons famous XC coach ,Professor Steve Williams used to tell the kids that were complainers like me “what you need is to go see Doctor Miles” Doctor Miles” solves all problems! So I went and saw Doctor Miles……. 83 miles to be exact! Pressing up the road in the fog & rain I made my way all the way to the town of Jetmore. I ran out of water about 1/2 way through & stopped in @ a tractor dealer along the road & filled my water & bought a candy bar & a Doctor Pepper & charged on up & down the rolling west Ks hills. I made it into town @ 6:00 in the now pouring rain & found a room @ a very nice little hotel the Pawnee Valley Lodge. Great people – great room & a restaurant the closest thing to my home towns “Chatter Box Restaurant ” The bonus to my room is that it is one door down from the “tornado shelter” I will never get used to the fact that when you stay out here the people always show you the tornado shelter. Strange to me…. Just a way of life out here. My health is better tonight & I am so glad of my choice of pressing on today. Doctor Miles did me good. Today puts me @ the 1/2 way point of the trip. Kinda funny note, the roads out here have NO sholder at all, & the road if filled with cattle hauler trucks! These guys are more than professional giving a lot of distance as they pass. I met 3 of them leaving Lakin this morn & as I got close to Jetmore I met the same trucks going back west – they all blew there horns & waved as the passed by. Kinda cool!
Tomo will be about 70 miles into Great Bend weather permitting ?
Frank's Coast to Coast Ride for Justin 