We left Scott City at 5:30 am with hopes of beating the afternoon winds but no such luck. It was already windy when we woke up at 4 am. We stayed at a "hostel" last night, a cute little Athletic club that allows bikers to sleep in their lodge & use their showers, etc. I forgot to take a picture.
The riding was same old Kansas, windy & hot. We made it into Tribune where we were planning on staying but the only hotel in town had some sort of crime scene investigation going on, and the camping was super sketchy, so we had to make a choice to move on. Unfortunately there wasn't another place to stay until Eads, which was another 58 miles (on top of the 50 some we had already done). We knew we weren't going to be able to make it, so we ended up hitchhiking with a farmer, who we had really interesting conversations about the government & farming with (and I finally learned how a grain elevator works- which I had asked about 10 people and they all didn't really know). We got to stay in Eads, which is a dirty little town with just about nothing there. The only restaurants in town were closed, and so was the store, so it was another nasty meal of gas station food for us.
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