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Friday 22nd June 2012
Start time: 06.49
Finish time: 12.59
Music played: Blog for the day (Saturday, 23 June 2012): On to today then. (now writing this a day late, so not sure what I will remember to put in). Going on my brief notes I have began to keep on my iPhone, we cycled through Everton, but no sign of Goodison Park though. Later on there was a plane flying overhead dusting the fields. The roads are very long and straight, with the fields flat. I got to one crossroad with the plane humming in the background, I was hoping for a Cary Grant moment from North by Northwest, but it didn’t happen. Maybe I have wait till I get further in Kansas where it is more dusty. So even before we got into the new State, there was some really bad road surfaces which I thought would make my fillings fall out and my bike fall to pieces. Luckily the quality changed before this happen as we got to the John Deer showroom with the biggest tractors you have ever seen! We ate at Golden City at the pie shop, as recommended by many other bloggers. I had no room for any pie, but I did manage one of their breakfasts! Lovely. Another great old towns with lots of old shop frontages. The roads were amazing after this and we whizzed along with a great tailwind. Got some really good average speeds. There were a couple of really cute dogs who wanted to come out and play, just after Everton, but I had no time to stop. I don’t think they were the normal crazy barking dogs either. Back at camp, we had showers again at the local pool. After cooking, I went over to watch more baseball with Ubald. This was free to get in too!!! The kids playing were aged around 13-15yrs old. Great game, we chatted with the locals and had a fab night. When we walked back to camp, there were a group of lads, who earlier were standing on the back of their trucks watching the free game. Ubald went to take their picture and they got a bit crazy about it, jokingly I think. Once they found out we were from Europe, me from London, that was it, we were best mates!! We yapped about everything from cars to work, sport to music. It was great, could have stayed all night talking. We let off fireworks, maybe they should have taken me up on my offer of a booze-run. Anyway, it was one of the most fun nights in a long time!! Thank God! That reminds me of the night before in the other town, just before going to bed, kids were letting off 4th July fireworks early and loads of fireflys were dancing around the grass and trees, it was amazing!! Just like something out of a film. So happy to have experienced that. |
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