LOBAA29 Crawford State Park, Cherokee Landing near Girard, KS

6/14/08 Sat CDT
LOBAA29 Crawford State Park, Cherokee Landing near Girard, KS
Sally bike mileage/time TBD
Sally Total TBD
Bill bike mileage/time 32.5 / 2:34:34
Bill Total 681.2
Jim mileage TBD
Jim total TBD
Bill:
I am sitting in the town square in Girard, KS and we have great
internet access so I decided to get ahead of the days log. Sally just
left to ride to camp. I will catch up with her in Jimmy soon. Today
was an eventful day. we woke up to fog from last night's rain but it
cleared after a while and we had a gorgeous cool start of the day.
Because of our day off, I was able to put my new tires on the bike and
ride out with Sally this morning. We road about 6 miles or so and came
to a closed road because of high water. The water was only a foot or
so at its deepest so I walked the bike across. Sally was waiting to
see how I did and just as I got across, a pickup truck came along and
offered her a ride. We continued riding uttil the 15 mile point where
I turned around to go back and get the car. About the time I got back,
Sally called and said she had a flat but was able to fix it on her
own. Then 15 minutes later she called again to say she had come upon
another flooded road - this one was wider- several hundred yards. But
again, she got across. Then into Kansas we went and hooked up again
for lunch in Pittsburg, KS. Then on to Girard where I found this nice
little square so I uploaded more pictures and will upload this as
well. We plan to camp in Crawford State Park about 10 miles from here
- we have to cross a spillway to get to the campground but it sounds
doable. More later...