What a day... This morning lil foot and I had our quickest time getting out of. amp, and were on the road by 5:45am. It was beautiful to ride so early, no sun, no humidity and no hills! The morning was flying, we reached 60 miles before 11am and continued on after an ice cream cone from McDonald's! About 20 miles later we found a little shade and had some lunch, during this time we had two people offer us cold water! Apparently Kansas is known for having some of the most polite people and we were sure feeling the love. Only two miles after starting up from lunch a third guy pulled over and waited for us on the side of the road with more water, I felt like a professional cyclist in a race and riding by just grabbing a water without getting off my bike!
This was shaping up to be a great day.
The plan was to meet Chris and Gary in Toronto, but we found out they went on to Eureka, KS. An extra 23 more miles than we originally expected to do, but we figured if we had the wind with us then let's go for it.
We made it 99 miles into Toronto and it was 100 degrees with a heat index of 112, so we thought it would be smart to take a two hour break from the sun. At this point lil foot began to get heat rash on her legs, she was able to put cream on them and ice them up which helped a bunch!
The place we stopped in was a little restaurant in the middle of the three block town, the people in there were extremely nice and chatted us up a bit while we rested in the ac. An hour later we ordered food, and boy oh boy was that a mistake. I had a cheese burger with onions and mushrooms, only it wasn't actually a burger but a gross meatloaf tasting chunk of meat. Lil foot had the ruben which was a special that come with a drink and side, but they never offered her a drink and chartered her extra for the side salad she requested. The two owners had mentioned during our chatting that they weren't doing too well because the town doesn't like new people, but buddy I have to tell you it might be the service and not so yummy food that is causing your lack of business. Haha. YUCK. I won't be ordering anymore hamburger steaks the rest of the trip that's for sure. I must say though it was amazing of them to let us hide out from the sun for a couple hours.
Around 6 or so we got ourselves together and headed off for our last 23 miles to Eureka and a prospect of getting to dip into a pool! Although we were pretty tired and drained, we made it in under two hours! Nina was all set up in the city park when we arrived, so we chatted a bit before an amazing woman entered our lives!
Lil foot told me she would like to pick it up from there so the rest of the night and the next day is all her!
There will be no need to tie me up this time, I'll let her write a post for once, haha.
Before I finish I don't believe I mentioned the crazy guy from Holland or the group of younger guys from all over the states. Let's save the crazy guy for last so first the group of guys... It was 10 miles before reaching Toronto and we were passing through one of the many lovely towns of this beautiful country, we made a turn and noticed about 8 guys heading our way with fully loaded bikes. We generally stop and talk to any cyclists we see, but these guys didn't just stop they swarmed us if they had been in prison for years and the only action they were getting was from their cell mate Spike. I must say one or two were good looking so I didn't mind much haha. One of the guys spent the previous night with Brian (from Connecticut) who apparently has been telling everyone he meets about us. Still not sure if its a good or bad thing, but it feels like we're celebrities among this summer's cyclists. They all seemed like they were having a good time on their trip but we kept the talk short due to the heat rising. So good luck guys.
Now the crazy guy... What a nut! It's about 9am or so and in the distance we notice a cyclist coming our way, as he gets closer we noticed his outfit was a bit much, a fleece, full on high top hiking boats and a reflective vest. Not only was he completely over dressed but he had five bags on his bike and a massive backpack on. I almost groped from heat stroke just looking at him. That convo wasn't all too long or interesting because he definitely didn't understand us a bit. The rest of Tue day lil foot and I would just the word fleece to make the other laugh, so at least we got that out of that encounter!
All done now... Lil foot shall continue some time today!
Sasq
Ps today was 103 without the heat index... Just a little sneak of what's to come I guess.
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