After watching a gorgeous sunrise over the baseball diamonds we got moving early. Today is yet another "big" day of 80ish miles. Somehow these "big" days in Kansas just don't feel all that big. Maybe its the company, maybe its the tailwind, but I suspect its how relatively flat the terrain is. We rolled out of the flint hills into more hills and prairies. Of course all these hills and prairies were covered in fields of wheat to the horizon.
What was really nice was right around the middle of the day we entered a national wildlife refuge which was actually a marshland. This is supposedly one of the best places to see migratory birds in the early spring as they use this area as a stopping point on their migration route. The open fields and marshlands provided the birds refuge and the trees provided us the same. I've taken to taking pictures of the trees as they have started to become sparse. Outside of peoples houses there are little to no trees to be found. Supposedly it is going to get even worse, or better?, the further west we travel.
On our way to the next town we caught up to the Belgian. I told him I'd catch him ah well I'm not the one with only one pair of bike shorts, (actually I only have one pair as I use underwear half the time). We finally made it to the little town of Larned, Kansas which had another city park with a pool and pavilion we could use.
What was really nice was right around the middle of the day we entered a national wildlife refuge which was actually a marshland. This is supposedly one of the best places to see migratory birds in the early spring as they use this area as a stopping point on their migration route. The open fields and marshlands provided the birds refuge and the trees provided us the same. I've taken to taking pictures of the trees as they have started to become sparse. Outside of peoples houses there are little to no trees to be found. Supposedly it is going to get even worse, or better?, the further west we travel.
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