25 June 2012 Eureka to Newton KS 76 miles (TransAm 1,794) We knew before Gina started her trip that cycling across Kansas would take resolve. Resolve to ride endless miles with nary a corner to turn. Resolve to cycle beneath an intensely burning sun. Resolve to battle forward through likely headwinds. Resolve to take it …
24 June 2012 Chanute to Eureka KS 63 miles (TransAm 1,718) As noted in the Wagon Haiku two days ago, Gina crossed into Kansas, the fifth state on her ten state tour. If you drew a line straight west from where she’s currently located in this Sunflower State, it would appear as though she’s halfway …
23 June 2012 Pittsburg to Chanute KS 60 miles (TransAm 1,655) I am walking down a neighborhood street that I don’t normally frequent. It’s nice to see some new scenery but actually, I’m not really seeing any of it. The intensity of the rain and wind are propelling my chin into my chest and my …
22 June 2012 Ash Grove MO to Pittsburg KS 71 miles (TransAm 1,595) Wagon Haiku flat and fast Kansas pie fuels feet by fields and farms sweat meet laundromat
21 June 2012 Marshfield to Ash Grove MO 49 miles (TransAm 1,524) Rather than fall hopelessly behind on the blog, as I am on the brink of doing, I’ve devised a method for catching up. It’s called Haiku. Three short lines, seventeen syllables in all: five, seven, five. Brilliant. And a re-usable strategy, for, like …
20 June 2012 Houston to Marshfield MO 65 miles (TransAm 1,475) What are the odds this lady is downloading the Quitter app? Another day in Missouri, another cafe with indoor smoking. But this photo does not depict the highlight of the day. There was much better indoor scenery to be had in Springfield, where, after …
19 June 2012 Eminence to Houston MO 46 miles (TransAm 1,410) Gina keeps telling me how much the Ozarks look like Australia. On the surface that statement sounds like it might be an indication that all of the hours and days and weeks of pedaling under the blistering sun are finally going to her head. …
18 June 2012 Eminence MO 0 miles (TransAm 1,363) Well, if you can’t beat em, join em. Despite having gone to college in the Rocky Mountain state, this is the first time ever that Gina has cracked open a can of Coors Light. She doesn’t exactly look the river rat part though, what with her …
17 June 2012 Lesterville to Eminence 53 miles (TransAm 1,363) Today the things that southern Missouri showed Gina can be categorized into three buckets: pretty, pretty cool, and maybe not so pretty as the other pretty things. All being said in the knowledge that beauty is forever in the eye of the beholder. We’ll start …
16 June 2012 Farmington to Lesterville MO 44 miles (TransAm 1,310) I am drinking a beer while writing this blog because it seems to be the fitting thing to do. It’s not a canned beer, which would have been most apropos. But now that I’m no longer twenty-something and poor, I don’t buy beer in …