We are slowing descending from the high plains, but it is hardly detectable in riding. We had a 93 mile ride and it was extremely hot. When I arrived in Mc Cook, a bank thermometer displayed 104 and then 105 and then back to 104 again. That may have been a little off, but it was hot. When I arrived on the edge of town, I headed straight to a Macs for a value meal and lots of Diet Pepsi, ON ICE! Water in your bottle on the bike gets pretty hot and non-refreshing on hot days. When I got on my bike to leave for camp, I had a flat and was so bushed, I did not have the energy to change it there and walked the bike several blocks to our camp for the night and changed it after recouping a bit. That is my second flat on the trip.
We crossed into our sixth state today and entered our third time zone. We are now in Nebraska and the Central time zone.
The landscape was still pretty dry around here, but there was some scattered irrigated crops. It is slowly getting greener. I had one area where the grasshoppers were really thick on the shoulder of the road. The day before, we had quite a few kangaroo rats that were road kill on the shoulder.
This week is turning out to be quite mentally challenging, after accomplishing the mountains and now very open and sometimes boring landscape for miles. I have to get my head back into it. Because of the heat and distance, this was one of the toughest days on me physically also, as we also had a partial head wind.
My blog is short today, as I am really beat.
Love to all, P & J.
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