Saturday, July 18, 2009

Day 33: Garden City, KS to Garden City, KS

Today was a depressing day. We weren't going to go anywhere.

While we were getting breakfast we ran into a British touring cyclist, who was drinking some tea and checking cricket scores.

Rupert was touring the country and trying to keep off the TransAmerica route just to see some different things. He followed us for a few miles until he split to go west and we turned to go east to redo a few miles.

Before we left, we reserved another night at the Best Value Inn, so that we could leave most of our gear in the room and travel a little lighter. We took a leisurely day and took lots of pictures of whatever scenery we could come by.

We saw a Pheasant Farm.

Some sunflower fields...

And the largest feed farm we'd ever seen. There was even a scenic view pull over to look out at all the cattle.

Eventually we made it to Ingalls, home of the 1984 Ingalls 8 man football team.

Not much longer we reached where we'd be stranded the day before. Then we simply turned around and rode back. There was almost nothing to see.

It was beautiful, though. Long, vast plains with low hills. Except for the scary storms on the horizon, I enjoyed the view. Jillian wasn't as much a fan.

On our way back into town we stopped for a disgustingly cute photo.

Then we grabbed some dinner at IHOP before doing some laundry and going to bed.

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