Today we woke up at the usual time, 4:15, so that we could miss the 100 degree temperatures that we saw on the weather report yesterday. After finally waking the boys up with lights, pillows, and eventually physical intimidation- we packed up and hit the road before 5:30. The sunset was quite pretty in the morning, but it began to be clouded by a thick fog. When we took a break about 20 miles down the road, the men were all soaked from riding through the fog (see pictures). Finally, the sun broke through- and the temperature started to shoot up through the 80’s before the morning was over. We pulled off the road into a nice patch of grass where we ate our subway sandwiches around 11:30. For the second day in a row, we hit 70 miles right around noon- and kept ourselves moving through the hot, windy, Kansas plains. It hit about 95 degrees when we pulled into Dodge City- into a Best Western Plus. The hotel was definitely THE BEST hotel we stayed in this whole trip- and gratefully so, because we had a bunch of grumpy bikers by the time we got to Dodge City.
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