day 40

apparently everyone gets up super early cause when we work up at 9am everyone was packed up and on the road. ha. we love our sleep. we packed things up and hit up gooch's grocery for some breakfast then hit the road. today we went from tribune to dighton about 70 miles of severe side winds and heat. kansas is all pretty much the same being flat and having fields on both sides of you then off in the distance you see something silvery and its a grain silo that is small then slowly it becomes bigger then you pass it and you repeat this cycle over and over again. don't get me wrong it is truly beautiful out here and i am enjoying the change but it is the wind that is frustrating. even a sidewind is a bad wind, it still slows you down. we were biking and i noticed something different on our left, wind turbines! i thought that is super cool that they are harnessing power from the wind out here then i realized that they were all pointed towards the south and we were biking east. it was a very windy section since they erected wind turbines. so that was a nice change of scenery but sucked biking in it but we made it to the booming town of dighton. there are two restaurants in town, a bar and grill and a tasty freeze, so we opted for the tasty freeze where we devoured burgers, fries, and tasty milk shakes. it was just a plain hot day even in the shade as we ate. we then headed in search of the town park. when we got there we met up with jeff who was repairing a tube; he had tube issues all day and separated from lu and sue who went further that day. he was having a rough time and his tube popped while we were chatting so he left to grab dinner and work on it later. evan and i read and relaxed till 8 when the pool reopened and we went swimming for free for maybe 10 minutes. the water was coldish and the sun was already hiding from us so we took advantage of their warm showers! i was still hungry so we went to the gas station and got some food and wandered around town looking for the library to see if they had free wifi. we got to the town hall building/library and it was obviously closed since it was 9pm but i hit the electronic door button and it opened so we went inside and a voice came through a speaker, "the libraries closed!"; scared, we bolted out the door and said sorry to the voice from the speaker. we headed back to the pavilion where we were seeking shelter and light from; i read while evan journaled and jeff was talking to his fiance. all of a sudden these weird beetle like bugs came flipping into the pavilion; these are pretty stupid bugs that would fly around too so we all instantly stopped what we were doing and jumped to our feet with books in hand and started swatting them out of the air. we were a bunch of little kids laughing and doing our best karate moves to try and slice these bugs out of the air. after much death and carnage we decided it was bedtime. evan and i set up the tent and went to bed while jeff just slept outside under the pavilion.