Not much happened today, I got a taxi to Great Bend, about an hour away from Hays. It’s on state route 96, which the TransAmerica follows from Pueblo, first as a Colorado state route then as a Kansas state route, but the TransAmerica turns off of 96 just before it gets to Great Bend.

My motel is about a mile away from the bike shop, and on the way to the motel we stopped by the bike shop to drop off my bike. The shop is still expecting the parts to come in tomorrow and hopefully get it back rolling again.

The taxi driver took me the more scenic way, driving the state highways instead of the interstate, which meant I got to see some of the route I will skip from the car. It is more of the same, very gently rolling highway through wide open farmland, the railway line running parallel to the highway with grain hoppers every so often. Compared to the Colorado portion which was used as open grazing for cattle, in Kansas its primarily crops, corn, feed, and wheat.

That’s about it for today, taking It easy and looking forward to being self mobile again. Kansas is also heating up, it’s hot outside in the afternoon, and there’s a haze over the state since I got here from the wildfire smoke blowing down from Canada. Both typical for this time of year.