Wednesday, July 15th
Our route today took us directly west from Newkirk to Buffalo, Oklahoma
We started the day by getting out of the hotel late and then immediately stopping for breakfast! We're glad we did because the Bakery in Newkirk was a really fun place to have breakfast. This is one of those places that is the hub of the town.
This town has their routines. We learned that there is a 6am, 9am, and 10am coffee. We arrived between the 9 and 10 am coffee. When the 10am coffee people started coming in, everyone of them came by and asked who we were. Here's a photo of that group. Luckily, we hadn't chosen to sit at one of those table or according to the waitress, there could have been trouble :)
After hitting the road at 10:15, we were able to make up some time. I'm not joking when I say that I could have ridden the first 30 miles with my handlebars welded straight ahead.
We livened it up a bit by a right, two lefts, and a right, around the fields. This led us up to the Kansas-Oklahoma boarder.
Kansas is on the right.
We were riding in crazy hot weather. It started out hot, then got unbearably hot, then it moved up a notch. There was a strong cross wind on top of it and riding by empty fields would super heat the wind and make it difficult to breath! This burned field must have increased the already hot temps by 10 degrees.
This house looked like we felt: baked and wind blown.
Lunch was in Alva which is a typical Oklahoma town. Older buildings but well maintained.
We had another turtle rescue today. The dirt roads around here are pretty well travelled by semi-trucks. It's very Mad-Max looking to see a semi-truck driving fast down a dirt road. We had to hurry to get our bikes to the side and snap this picture before picking him up and moving him to the side.
Also found this toad at another stop.
OK, can you tell this was a light news day?
The day ended well when we arrived at our super comfortable and affordable little house/hotel in Buffalo. The Wheatland Inn consists of two little houses in town. This entire building is our place - Nice!
Tomorrow looks to be similar. We will continue our westward travel along the Kansas/Oklahoma border to arrive in Boise City, Oklahoma.
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