Kiki Bikes Across America

Sunday, June 28th – Dighton, KS to Tribune, KS

We just crossed over 2,000 miles today! We’re more than half way done with the trip and  we are now into our third time zone, Mountain Time! We are about 14 miles from the Colorado border as well. Lots of big things happening and only 2 days from Pueblo, CO. I’ll be taking a break there to go up to Denver and visit Chelsea and hopefully a couple other people as well and hope I can find some means to explore a bit while I’m up there. I’ll be leaving my bike in Pueblo at a bike shop and having the derailleur tuned-up since my new cable has since stretched and things are skipping now.

Today’s ride wasn’t too bad – we just did 73 miles from Dighton to Tribune. We got up at 6:30 and are back on our “normal” daytime riding schedule (we rode during the night this week because of the horrible heat wave that came through Kansas with 115 degrees with the heat index…awful). So anyway, we’re back on daytime riding, which is good and bad. I think the winds are worse during the day than the night, so that’s a major con. The plus is getting back to a normal sleeping schedule.

The ride went well — we did 3 sections of 24 miles or so each and each of us led for 8 miles then switched and after one rotation of that we were in Scott City, then Leoti, and then our final destination of Tribune. We stopped in Leoti for lunch at a restaurant and the waitress told us her mom does massages in Tribune, so we stopped by there when we arrived and she’s going to give us massages tonight, so we’re heading there shortly for a 30-40 minute massage.

Nothing too exciting today – met more cyclists passing going east bound – a group of 3 and then another group of 3, all guys.

GPS Stats:
72.1 miles
06:06 moving time
11.8 avg speed
19.8 max speed

Computer Stats:
73.07 miles
06:03:54 moving time
12.0 avg speed
20.0 max speed

Snake count: 4
Dog chases: 0