Arapahoe to McCook, NE

June 28th, We biked 40 miles into a headwind at 11 mph. I just accepted it as I knew that I could do it. We had an entire lane for ourselves all day. We stopped at a little town, for breakfast in Alma, NE with a population of 1133. Interesting that most of these little towns and much littler than Alma have two banks, so I reckon that there is enough business to support them. Small businesses are enterprising I have increasingly noticed. How do they stay in business in a small town? We'll a couple of day ago Steven and I got a smoothie in a dress shop. We wouldn't have know that we could get a smoothie except that the post lady told me. Yesterday's breakfast joint was also a pharmacy. The girl told me that to get to the ladies room that I had to walk past the pharmacy and past the kitchen and take a right. The ladies in the kitchen had all sort of questions about biking for me. After breakfast we checked out the 6 lane bowling alley and restaurant. The 18 wheeler trucks yesterday helped us in the wind with a little pull. We looked forward to them passing except for the ones carrying manure or pigs. Well it still was worth it. A bunch of vehicles and workers held our Interest as they we installing rail road ties over a mile or so. I started singing. I've been working on the railroad...

We got into McCook around 1:30pm. After some time resting in the Economy Inn. 72 including all taxes and fees and free breakfast we headed out for Mexican food. This is the biggest town that we've been in in quite some time 7600, an old railroad town. We learned from the bicycle shop guy, what a bicycle shop! Well it's a bicycle and vacuum cleaner shop. The bike shop guy told us that there is a Frank Lloyd Wright shop in town and he knew that because his parents lived there. I 

love FLW. We walked up there and it cool and in private hands. I asked the old rail road guy dressed in overalls why the trains are just sitting there on the tracks at the depot he said because they are working on the tracks east of us. 

Wind warnings 10-30 miles an hour and expected temperatures of 102 are keeping us here for an extra day.