Tuesday, August 14, 2007

Prairie Harvest


After a couple of hours after leaving my riding companions i arrived in newton Kansas. I rode to the agreed upon meeting place. Not more than two minutes after stopping my bike outside of prairie harvest, a women who introduced herself as Heidi walked up to me and asked if i was riding the trans am bike route and was i staying the night in newton. Before i got out the answers to her questions she had explained that she hosted people in her house though she was leaving for a wedding in South Dakota. She then gave me her roommates name and number with instructions to call her so that i could stay in their extra room. Just after this interaction Logan showed up. We went inside prairie harvest were we met Heidi's roommate Liz. She offered to have us stay at her house just as i was trying to come up with a way to say that her roommate had offered us a room in their house without sound to entitled. We ended up getting showers and then went out for dinner. It turns out that they had done the trans am the year before and since they live within 200 yd of the route they would show the same generosity to others that they had received on their trip. The night ended up with Liz, Kate(Liz's friend), Logan, and myself drinking beer, and looking up funny nostalgia on the Internet. Such as hammer pants and Dean Cain from Louis and Clark, who by the way was the worst superman to date. All said and done it was all that Logan had hyped it up to be and more. So much so that we didn't wake until 10 and only rode 60 miles the next day. I have to say thanks to Liz for the hospitality.

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