Today’s ride took us to Toronto Cross Timbers State Park at Rt. 54 at Rt. 105. We stopped for dinner at the Lizzard Lips Café and General store run by a nice orlder couple, both of them very bicyclist friendly. They gave us each a small plastic lizard, saying they’ve given thousands of them away to cross country bike tourists.
We met our British friends, John and Jan Bell at the State Park, with John studying maps. He designed a route that would save us quite a few miles in KS by going south to Girard on Rt. 105 (It turned out that this was a mistake. Rte. 105 actually ended just on the other side of the dam from Rte. 105. This caused us to get a little lost the next morning, but we still saved quite a few miles generally following John and Jan’s route). The actual route was to go directly south, and then to take 47 directly east to Girard.
We also decided to follow John and Jan’s example and attempt to get onto the road by 5:10 a.m. or so, after getting up at 4:45 a.m.
Today’s ride average 8.7 miles average into the wind and heat.
Today’s ride 60.8 miles with 6 hours and 59 minutes in the saddle. WOW!
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