Kiki Bikes Across America

Monday, June 22nd – Rest Day in Pittsburg, Kansas

Here begins the fun – I slept till 8:30 this morning then got up, uploaded photos, did some web upkeep stuff to back things up online. Made a backup of my computer as well. Then I headed to the post office to pick up my new insurance card and they couldn’t find my mail. I left, then went to Walmart to buy snacks and gatorade and such for the next few days since we’ll literally be in the middle of NOWHERE for about a week, I imagine. I came back to the firehouse and had spaghetti and salad again for lunch along with some apple sauce that I got at Walmart (for some reason had been craving it). I also got zebra cakes

Look at all that clutter - reorganizing, eating, relaxing a bit. Superb rest day!

Bright red fire truck!

So shiny, just like a mirror. Me playing around with my camera for a change.

Controls on the fire truck

After lunch I organized things and worked on some more web stuff, and re-packed stuff again. I started charging all my batteries as well. Then took a 15 minute power nap and then left about 3:30 to go bike to the movies. I went and saw The Proposal which I thought was really good. Got out about 6:15 and then biked back to the firehouse and along the way saw a sign that said it was 101.5 degrees outside. Phew, it’s hot!

We just talked about doing our biking super early and later in the day to try to avoid the most horrible part of the day with the heat. So we’re going to get up at 3am tomorrow and try to be on the road by 4:30am and start biking … hopefully it’ll be a little cooler, but still hot, of course. It was apparently up to 103.5 degrees today (when the guys saw the sign earlier).

So we’ve added more photos/videos if anyone’s interested:

• Chris’ videos on his YouTube page: http://www.youtube.com/SkyRunner300
• George’s videos on his YouTube page: http://www.youtube.com/raGe0rge
• More photos on my Picasa page: http://picasaweb.google.com/transamericanride09/