Sunday, May 21, 2006

Day 47: Sunday, May 21

Evidently during our night ride two days ago, we crossed that invisible barrier between the dry West and the humid Midwest. It is now ridiculously humid! Although, I suspect this is how it is going to be for the rest of the trip. The landscape is starting to roll again as we approach the Ozarks.








We met an enthusiastic biker in Cassoday who stopped to talk to us about our trip. He was about to go mountain biking. That is an interesting concept... mountain biking in Kansas. We met our second group of west-bound cyclists later in the afternoon. There were two girls from Holland and a gentleman from England who were biking the TransAm and a younger guy riding from New York to Los Angeles. He told me about a bike seat called Brooks that I am going to need to look into. It is an old-school leather seat that is supposedly unbelievably comfortable. The wind is supposed to blow from West to East, but we faced head winds again today. Despite the wind, we were able to ride more than 100 miles, so now we are definitely ahead of schedule. We made it to Cross Timbers State Park where there are four different camping areas. We saw the turn off for the first camp site, but we decided to ride to the second. Once we got everything set up, we learned from the only other campers here that the first camp site we passed is the only one with showers! One of the girls I used to work with at the Grand Canyon is from Kansas. Holli told us to look her up since the trail goes right through her home town of Pittsburg. We are hoping to be able to make it to her house tomorrow.