1 day before I fly to LA
It’s finally happening. After 15 months of planning I fly out tomorrow for a once in a lifetime opportunity to cycle 3,500 miles from Los Angeles to Boston over the next 7 weeks.
USA coast to coast stage 17 Guymon OK to Liberal KS
68KM, 118M climbed, 2 hours 45 minutes Total 2,152KM, 13,887M climbed, 88 hours 39 minutes After heavy overnight thunderstorms I was worried that today was going to be a wet wide but luckily woke up to blue sky and roads drying out. As today’s ride was going to be the shortest of the whole trip we had an extra hour sleep which was most welcome and set off at 8:30. The first rest stop was at a town called’Hooker’ which is strange for a town in the middle of the USA to be named after a position in a rugby team. We then crossed our fifth state line into our sixth state Kansas through which we will ride for the next week. As we are in Kansas we visited Dorothy’s house which to be honest was a tacky way of cashing in on the Wizard of Oz. After a couple of difficult cycling days the last two days have allowed me to recover and also get to the hotel at a reasonable time to be able to wash clothes, catch up with my family, have a bath and update social media before dinner whic...
Rand McNally retrieved and ready we are following your progress every morning before I do my two miles with Alvin. Thinking of you all the time and good luck 👍 Dad & Lynne X
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