6/23 Haiwatha to Marysville, KS 60 miles

Tail wind all day! In the 70s today too! We rode route 36 all day and it's varying widths of brake down lanes. Semi trucks passed us giving us a pull and in the opposite direction we got a push. We had long tempered up hills all day followed by the same in the down hills. While we still see much corn, t

his is cow country, some trucks that passed us smelled like manure.

Rained threatened and we hoped to get to are lunch town of Seneca for lunch before the down pour, we didn't luckily there began to be homes along the road as we were 5 miles from the town. Steven pulled off and rode down a long gravel driveway, I followed. We waited under a type of front yard covered patio with the good graces of the elderly owners. The husband, 84, a retired navy man and farmer enjoyed talking with us. This stop will be a nice memory. We got to a Mexican lunch only partly wet and the food was more than ample and really good.

My bike developed an irritating high pitch squeek over the last 15 or so miles. First thing that I did was to clean and then oil all around my crank. I hope that fixed it!

We are in Marysville home to The Pony Express. The photo of the full frame building is the original Pony Express bldg. The boulevards are so big in these towns and traffic is so light, so different from home. They still have diagonal parking as I remember as a kid.