Today, once again, we arose at 4:30 from our very comfortable beds (and air mattresses), so that we could beat the weather and the clock as we journeyed over to Kansas. We were given a delicious breakfast by the graveyard-shift worker at the Holiday Inn Express before we left the hotel. After hopping onto Highway 50, we actually started to feel some sprinkles of rain as we headed out east. Gratefully, they passed as we traveled farther and farther from La Junta. However, we were also grateful that the clouds stayed hanging over us to shelter us from the sun. We stopped at a small gas station in an even smaller city called Las Animas and spoke with some very kind men who told us that we were crazy to try to bike so far. J However, more importantly, they told us about the storms that were blasting directly through our route today. Cautiously, we proceeded on to Lamar, a larger city, where we bought Subway sandwiches to eat later on that day. We stopped 20 miles later in Granada and ate our sandwiches- already having gone 75 miles at 12:15! We finished our lunch and then set out for the Kansas border. About 15 miles later we snapped some pictures at the welcome sign, and then biked into Syracuse where we stayed the night.
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