Reading Time: 2 minutes I woke up behind the mound of asphalt to a sunny, windy day, and the sound of a bulldozer nearby. Last night I’d noticed the bulldozer parked near the pile. This morning a guy drove a large truck into the lot, parked, got into the dozer, started it up, and proceeded to load asphalt into […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes The morning was beautiful as I left the Rose Cottage and headed north. It soon got warmer and an hour later I was down to my long sleeved T-shirt and Tilley hat when Tom, a guy about my age, pulled up in a pickup. “My grandson lost his cell phone along here last night. Have […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes I’m in Mickey Mantle country. Mickey grew up in Commerce, Kansas (I passed through it today), and began his professional baseball career playing with the Whiz Kids team of Baxter Springs (where I am staying tonight). Other than having his baseball card when I was a kid (wish I still had it), this is as close […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute I’m glad this Days Inn has a Jacuzzi; I was sitting in it five minutes after I checked in. This morning when I started out, the wind was wicked, and the cold never let up. Oklahoma must know that I’m still in town. There was a Freeze Warning to start off my day, and yet another […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute I wore five layers of clothing as I walked in the cold, windy, overcast, gray day. Fortunately, the 16 to 20 mph tailwind pushed me along a generally good shoulder from Big Cabin to Afton, Oklahoma. Only after Afton did the road completely degenerate, but that was just the last several miles. In all, I […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute Forced rest has its place, I suppose. I ate breakfast (yogurt, Raisin Bran, oats, banana, extra raisins, orange juice, and vitamins), and then emptied my kart and rearranged everything. I refolded all of my clothes. The camp stool I’d ordered to replace the one I’d accidentally left in Nowata arrived via UPS from Amazon (1-day […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute At 5 am I was awake, eating a breakfast of blueberry yogurt, oats, and a banana as I read a message from Jana Brown. It included a scary weather prediction of possible tornadoes. Tomorrow. Well, now I have a choice of a possible demise in a tornado, or dying of boredom holed up in a […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes As I left the motel this morning, I was not optimistic. I expected the same troublesome, nerve-wracking, road I encountered yesterday. Sadly, this was the case. I spied a kid on a bike wandering between store and church parking lots and occasional sidewalks, so I did the same for a couple of miles. Then even […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes My campsite (behind the broken concrete and rebar) was a wonderful place to be last night—restful and generally quiet. The rain eventually stopped, but it remained cold during the night. This morning, the sun was shining. I got back on the highway after eating a protein bar, and… Poof! The shoulder ended. So I dodged traffic […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Well, this will teach me to trust the AccuWeather app. I’m sitting in the sunshine at 2 pm, taking a break, and I see a few small drops of water on my phone. And my jacket sleeve. And my pants. I look up. The sun is shining. I check the app: 0% chance of precipitation […]