After attending breakfast with the Friday morning men’s group at Wanamaker Woods, I headed West by Southwest.
The morning was pleasant, however, temperatures rose as I headed past the many fields and grain elevators. Oil wells also dotted the landscape like ants on a picnic table. As I progressed West, meeting the never-ending parade of trucks, it dawned on me, if I had an $1 for every cattle hauler, grain truck or tanker I met, we could probably fund the children’s ministry for about three years.
I stopped in Jetmore, Kansas, for lunch at a very tiny “hidden gem” called Judy’s Cafe. Had a fresh, ground beef burger with hand-cut fries.
The smell of money (cattle pens) in western Kansas and eastern Colorado gave way to the more pleasant aroma of sage and pine through the rocky mountains in Colorado and New Mexico.
I also got my first traffic delay coming across the foothills of eastern Colorado as well as my first downpour of rain west of Walsenburg, CO.
My riding gear protected me from the heat as well as the stinging rain. The associated cloud cover from the earlier rainstorm provided a pleasant last two hours of riding into Taos, NM.
Miles completed today: 732.8
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