Photo16, here we are passing by old Fort Larned. Charlie Herzog and I came by Larned on our way back from Dodge last fall, but I couldn't get Charlie to ride a bike. Maybe if Charlie sees all the cute ladies, he will change his mind and ride. We only do maybe 80 to 90 miles a day. I'm not like a lot of these 60 and 70 year olds who go out of their way to ride 100 miles per day.
Photo 17. Sometimes the days get long and the butt gets sore and the legs get tired, so you feel a whine coming on. But then you see one of these fellows. A disabled vet, paraplegic, peddling with his hands all the way across. We had three of them, accompanied by a van pulling an air conditioned cargo trailer for one of them. That fellow lost all nerve senses from his chest down and couldn't sweat, so he overheated easily, and the girl van driver kept him cool and then he would go again.
Photo 18, besides wheat, Kansas has big CRP fields of big bluestem. Rumor has it that pheasants like CRP. Big bluestem gets 5 to 6 ft tall. In the old days, it used to be as tall as a man on a horse.
Photo 19, four senior citizens, all in their 70's.
Photo 20, in Kansas, even when its hot and you have to wear shorts, a well dressed man wears a western hat.
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