The Land of Oz

Aloha Everyone,
We are making our way through Kansas. Ted's family came to visit and took us out to chinese buffet. Was so delicious wish I could of taken a to go container for later. We rolled out of Newton Sunday morning not being in a big hurry as the temperature was great for a change and we only had flat riding ahead of us. There are very few places to stop and fuel up along the way especially as we make our way west. Well Yesterday was sunday so it was even tougher. We stopped in Hesston at a stop light and met Bob who was out cruising and during this time James came out and gave us each gatorade for later wow that was sweet. Then we got to the gas station and they had air for no charge yipee I topped off my tires and we rolled on. We made our way to Buher just in time for lunch but oh oh. Nothng is open it is sunday in this small town and no body opens. We thought ok well we have a few items in our handle bar bags and we can get a soda outside the gas station so as we were turning around a car came up and asked if we were looking for lunch we smiled and said yeah but nothing is open. They said well we just came from church and we had a bake potato and cake session after church would you like some of that and I said sure where do we go and he pulled over and his wife handed us a bag of baked potatos, fritoes and about 6 pieces of various cakes, we were so grateful and thanked them huge amounts, they said if they were not on their way out of town they would of invited to their house. Thanks. As we settled down for our lunch another guy stopped me and told me if we needed water to come to his house behind the post office I said great we will be there shortly. We got our water and talked story for a short while and we were off again. Wow those people were so kind to us strangers. We rolled into nickerson and were so thankful the quik stop was open 24 hours we got a cold drink and headed to the park for the night. We met a couple guys staying at the park from sweeden. This morning we rolled out of town under near perfect conditions weather wise. Saw alot of wildlife today. Birds, Birds and more birds. The road was so straight if we could of we could of pedaled with our eyes closed. Then the wind came in and it got real hot again. We could not find any shade to have lunch so we kept moving as there were not any facilities for 58 miles today. We reahed Larned Kansas I told Ted I think this has been the longest 20 miles of my life. We stopped at the department store and got cold drinks out front then we found the Best Western for the night. AAAAAA Nice cold air conditioning................. Sleep well everyone,
Till next time, keep the rubber side down and enjoy the ride.
Lisa