Tuesday, August 14, 2007

Someone to ride with


I ate dinner at this nice restaurant in Toronto Kansas. The owner of the restaurant piled my plate high and brought me extra food since she knew how hungry i must be. We talked for a bit and glad to have get info about the local area. After dinner i road down to the lake where there is a state park and stopped for the night. This to cap off my longest day to date of 115 miles. I had just recently broken a rear spoke and spent the next 30 minutes fixing it. Which turns out to be much more complicated than i would have guessed, since you have to remove the rear wheel, take off the tire and tube, and then take off the rear cassette in order to replace the spoke. As i was washing up from this, which in addition to being labor intensive is one of the dirtiest jobs possible, i meet Logan. Who is a 19 year old college student from NY. We sat and talked for a couple of hours until it was really late and we decided to go to bed. During the course of the conversation we realized we were headed in the same direction so we agreed to meet up in the afternoon the following day in newton Kansas about 100 miles away. This i was told was the place to go since there were people at a health food store their by the name of prairie harvest that would put us up for the night. The idea of a shower and air conditioning sounded wonderful so in the morning we got up early and headed off.

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