Day 34

Day 34
Garden City, Kansas

Today we rode from Lamar, Colorado to Garden City, Kansas. I was a sweep, along with Rob; Dave, Matt, Joey, and Brendle rode with us. The landscapes were actually a little boring today. Just lots of fields and corn and smelly cattle or pig or chicken farms and one or two processing plants and a lot of bad smells. We rode pretty much the whole day on highway 50, about 103-105 miles in to Garden City. We rode straight to the public pool which advertises itself as "The Largest Pool In the World" (*in Kansas). It was pretty big. There were three awesome slides. They were by far the best slides we have used yet. There was an open red one which was okay, and two (yellow and blue) covered slides. The yellow one had more turns but the blue one went faster. They were a lot of fun. There were also some diving boards, though they were much safer than yesterday's.

When we left the pool we rode our bikes about two miles to the hotel. We were all wearing our bathing suits, some of us were wearing our sandals, and I was still wearing my towel around my waist. Our pacelines looked pretty ridiculous riding through the town.

I'm rooming with Alex, Nick, and Kent. Here is a picture of the room:


Okay, I'm very thirsty so I'm going to go get a drink or something.

Okay now I'm back. We just had dinner at a Golden Corral buffet, sponsored by a Kansas State Pi Kappa Phi alumni named Grant.

I just watched part of the Home Run Derby. David Ortiz won.

Here's a picture of my badly burnt thigh:


I'm going to bed. It's 940 and we have a 6 am wake up tomorrow.

One of these days I'll get around to actually posting all these blog entries.


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