day 38, Pittsburg, KANSAS! 65 miles

After a quick breakfast snack, we hit the road with perhaps the coolest temperatures of our trip - we actually broke out the arm warmers! We polished of the last of the Ozark roller coaster hills in the first 15 miles, and just about them the promised tailwind from the east arrived! Felt like Stephanie had raised the mizzen mast up behind me! We flew into Golden City, MO for a late breakfast at Cookie's Diner, where we wished we had left room for a piece of their home-made pie.

Back on the road, the countryside turned into a checkerboard of corn, soybean, and wheat fields, diced up by roads at right angles at every mile. The tailwind continued, and in no time (by high-noon) we arrived in Pittsburg - our shortest day timewise by far! As I type this, it's mid-afternoon and the American flag outside the Lamplighter Inn (our highly recommended accomodations - ie.pool) is whipping steady towards the west. It's almost a crime to waste it..........but we need our rest! Tomorrow's another day, and our weather expert Lynn claims it will be there for a couple more days to push us westward!

We love Kansas! It's flat! And Stephanie can't wait for me to drag her through all the barb-wire museums on the prairie!