July 16

 71.5 miles to Hoxie, Kansas.

Another interesting day.  At breakfast this morning we checked the weather and it indicated sunshine all day, high temp of 85, and west wind 13-15mph all day.  We hit the road before 7am to try to beat the heat but found ourselves riding in dense fog and light mist.  It looked like the sun was going to break through early but the clouds rolled back in and the temps stayed down in the low 70's.  Sometime after 1pm the sun finally came out but we were already 50 miles into our day so it didn't affect us much.  Before we start riding each morning Brian and I offer our prediction as to what time we expect to get to our destination.  Today I guessed 5pm while Brian guessed 4:45pm.  We actually got into Hoxie just before 3pm.  We averaged 12.7 mph for 71.5 miles and we were quite pleased with that effort, especially considering the wind in our face all day.

Today we passed the "World's Largest Easel" in Goodland, Kansas.  Really not much to say about that except - why?

We also passed into the Central Time Zone.

A hazy start.

The sun soon disappeared and didn't come out for another 6 hours.

World's Largest Easel

Granaries dot the landscape.

Usually run as a COOP by several large farms in the area.

Rolls and rolls of hay.