Day 13 & 14: I've got a feeling we're not in Missouri anymore.

Kev Says:
Kansas is flat, dry and hot. We rode about 500km then miraculously by sunset we found some trees at the edge of a field to hang the hammocks. Woke up and hit the road around 6:20 and headed further west on the same flat road.

Willow has been having some problems starting and I've been using the kick-starter over the last few days. I'm getting pretty tired with that so we brought her to a shop in Dodge City. The doctor gave her a compression test which she passed with flying colours. He figured it was once again the points to blame and by chance they had two sets in stock. She is still in the shop now so I guess we'll just have to wait and see if we're gonna get the hell outta Dodge today.

Trav Says:
Ahh Kansas. I expected you to be perfectly flat, and completely treeless. However, it turns out that you have some small rolling hills and a few trees here and there. I'm disappointed.

It's bloody hot. Both days are in the 100's. I'm surprised Willow hasn't overheated in this weather (the piece of shit that she is - I kid, I kid. Hopefully Kev doesn't read this before he posts).

A lot of corn stuff going on around here. Corn fields, lots of trucks driving around with chopped up corn stalks going somewhere (for bio fuel? or biomass?). Decent number of trucks driving around with livestock shoved in the back, heading off to be slaughtered. Kind of makes me sick to see. Also lots of natural gas wells and oil pump jacks in the fields. I can often smell the vented gases from the natural gas wells, but I asked Kev and he said he never noticed. Maybe it's in my head after watching Gas Land.

Anyway, I'm eager to get to Colorado for a change of scenery (as well as lower temperatures!)