September 21, 2010 - Toronto Lake to Chanute, Kansas

Today was a fairly short day (about 45 miles), but with about 17 miles of headwind in the beginning.  The wind seems to come primarily from the South, which isn't bad unless you're riding directly into it.  We left Toronto Lake early in the morning and headed for Chanute, Kansas, a town of about 6,000 people (large by our standards at this point in the ride!).  It has your usual fast food restaurants, chain motels, and even a WalMart!  We're camping in a county park that for some reason doesn't charge anything for the first 2 nights of camping.  In the afternoon Dana and I walked to WalMart and got haircuts and picked up a few items.  Lisa rode to Pizza Hut in the late afternoon for the buffet; Dana and I ended up ordering a pizza delivered to us from Pizza Hut.  It was really a nice day.