Todays ride from newton to eureka was a toughy. This headwind is just not going to go away and the heat is still a real deRide of every ride. The winds usually come from the opposite direction but not this year and I am fighting for every mile. I didn't take any pictures because all there is here is grass and dry river beds. One guy in a truck stopped to ask if I was ok...the first all trip. Then later on highway 54 another truck driver pulled up on the shoulder and handed me am ice cold bottle of water! Gotta love the people of Kansas!

All day I've been trying not to get sucked onto.bigger truck slipatreams...the big trucks coming towards me cause a wall of air that stings as it hits me...then covers me in the stench of cowshit from thier cargo.

Roll on Missouri..they have trees..that means shade and possibly water. Kansas really is a dry county this year.

I'm riding slower than normal because of the headwinds...just over a hundred I'm the last two days..