This morning we had a great, easy, flat, beautiful ride from Larned, Kansas to a National Wildlife Refuge north of Hutchinson, Kansas. We only rode about 35 miles before Fran picked us up to take us down to Hutchinson so we could get a taste of a larger town. We all needed to have some minor work done on our bikes and Hutchinson has a large bicycle shop (as it turned out the owner is a good friend of the owner of the Bike Gallery in Portland, Oregon where Dana works). At a point in our ride we saw a fairly large turtle crossing the road. Andreas stopped and picked her (Andreas referred to the turtle as a "her" but I'm not sure he could really tell what she was!) up and moved her onto the grass so she wouldn't get run over.
We got a nice hotel room at the Hampton Inn and had a great barbecue lunch. After our bikes were fixed rather than doing all of the things we had planned to do in Hutchinson we decided to just relax and go for a swim in the hotel pool. We did drive a few miles to Sand Hills State Park (Dana's idea) - all of us agreed that it is not worth going to!
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| Dana, Andreas & Nancy on top of sand dune at Sand Hills State Park |
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