Frank’s Coast to Coast Ride for Justin – Day 21, May 17
Editors note: the following is shared from Frank Watson’s blog at: Frank’s Coast to Coast Ride for Justin
JETMORE, KS – Not to pick on Kansas or anything, but these people work really hard to find things of interest in their state. But when your state boast having more cows than humans, well that’s tough. Take for example the picture above of Pawnee Rock. This is a “rock” that is about 50ft tall. They set up a state park around it & celebrate it like its the Grand Canyon. But at 50 ft. tall it’s probably the highest point in the state. It’s located in Pawnee Co., off the Pawnee highway, on Pawnee road. The rock was 100 ft. tall until they used 50 ft. of to build the railroad base. Interesting. This rock along with every other town taking credit for the “wizard of oz” and who has the nicest tornado shelter speaks volumes to the nothingness out here.
I was out of bed at 4 a.m. as I couldn’t sleep much with my cold and stuffed up head. So I planned on being out the door at sun up but at sun up it was wind blown rain and 45 degrees! I went back to bed. Off then at 8:25 a.m. I rode 24 miles to the next little town, stopped for breakfast and to thaw out. Probably the highest headwinds yet made the 70 mile ride into Great Bend an all day event. Hitting 9 mph was a big number when most of the time was spent grinding down the flat farm field lined road at 7 mph. I made it into Great Bend exhausted. There is no let up in the winds for the next 4 days. So my goal is to just make it out of Kansas by Sat or early Sunday?
Better riding days have got to be ahead. If I could catch even a mild tailwind , loose this head cold and cold rain filled days , this ride may turn fun before it’s over.
Please try and share these post with your friends and try to get as much out of this event as possible for Justin’s cause.
Remember to say a prayer to Justin, & please take time to go to the bone marrow registry site & sign up! Deletebloodcancer.org
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For more background information on this effort see our earlier story at: Canton Man Riding Coast-to-Coast for Justin Kline
