Day 22 – Cross Country Bike Tour – Dodge City to Great Bend, KS

Day 22 – Cross Country Bike Tour – Dodge City to Great Bend, KS

85 miles, +430/-1088 feet Windy, warm and wonderful.  Good shoulders on the roads and minimum traffic.  A good day in Kansas. This evening the temperature has warmed up.  Some conflict among reports, but somewhere in the mid 90's.  We talked over...

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Day 21 – Cross Country Bike Tour – Liberal to Dodge City, KS

83 miles, +1041/-1376 feet The cross country tour day goes like this:  wake up, eat, ride, eat, ride, eat, ride, eat, ride, eat, sleep, repeat day after day.  Once in a while you have to do your laundry, but bike clothes...

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Day 20 – Cross Country Bike Tour – Guymon, OK to Liberal, KS

Day 20 – Cross Country Bike Tour – Guymon, OK to Liberal, KS

40 miles, +375/-622 feet  Short day today, with a tailwind again.  Oh, my! After sleeping in and leaving the hotel at 9:00AM, the first stop on our continuing cross country bike tour was at a huge horse on the side of the...

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Day 19 – Cross Country Bike Tour – Dalhart, TX to Guymon, OK

Day 19 – Cross Country Bike Tour – Dalhart, TX to Guymon, OK

72 miles, +389/-1255 feet Average speed with the tailwind today: 21 mph After the past few long cross country days, we slept in this morning and didn't mount-up until 8:30. The wind is still blowing from the right direction and pushing the pace....

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Day 18 – Cross Country Bike Tour – Tucumcari, NM to Dalhart, TX

Day 18 – Cross Country Bike Tour – Tucumcari, NM to Dalhart, TX

96 miles, +2065/-2211 feet TAILWIND! AVERAGE SPEED: 18.3 mph  They blew right into Dalhart.....past historical markers, cows, and huge round sprinkler systems.                       Dalhart is a town with a few surprises.  This main road made of bricks is one of them.  Riding "The Dalhart Cobbles"...

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Day 17 – Cross Country Bike Tour – Las Vegas to Tucumcari, NM

Day 17 – Cross Country Bike Tour – Las Vegas to Tucumcari, NM

109 miles, +3338/-5674 feet Such a big cross country day. We left early this morning before breakfast was served at the hotel so headed to McDonald's to pick up the Big Breakfast for our riders.  The hotel has a very...

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Day 16 – Cross Country Bike Tour – Santa Fe to Las Vegas, NM

Day 16 – Cross Country Bike Tour – Santa Fe to Las Vegas, NM

Let's ride to Las Vegas! 72 miles, +3842/-4004 feet Thunder is rolling above our Las Vegas Hotel.  A few rain drops were felt just as the riders arrived, but....I was told this was the best cross country tour day ever. Happy...

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Day 15 – Cross Country Bike Tour – Rest Day in Santa Fe, NM

Rest Day  Santa Fe is a fun day to "rest".  There should, however, be actual resting happening.  Sunday we head down the road again for two more days in New Mexico, followed by Texas, Oklahoma and then a week in...

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Day 14 – Cross Country Bike Tour – Albuquerque to Santa Fe, NM

67 miles, +4814/-3277 feet 12 days of riding - over 900 miles! On day 14  riders are anxious for a rest day.  With 12 days of riding behind them totaling over 900 miles there is reason to both celebrate and rest....

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Day 13 – Cross Country Bike Tour – Grants to Albuquerque, NM

79 miles, +2082/-3417 feet "WOW"....need to reflect back on last night's dinner at the "WOW" diner in Grants, NM.  What a blast from the past!  Usually we are close enough to a restaurant to walk, but not the case in...

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