This is where I am. Dodge City, KS. Home of Fort Dodge, now a VA Clinic and Soldiers' Home, and Dodge City - also home to U.S. Beef, a huge slaughterhouse/processing plant run by Arby's on "Wyatt Earp Boulevard." I have thought Kansas and Oklahoma were both beautiful, chiefly because of how dramatically different their topography has been from anything I have seen before. I think I wrote a little bit last time about the flooding in Oklahoma. I few a pictures of this. I saw corn up to its tassels in water. And a barn completely flooded, and a house with water lapping around its foundation. Speaking of natural disasters, today we passed with a mile or so of Greensburg, KS, destroyed by a tornado about two months ago. I did not go myself, but the pictures I saw today (look at Meredith's blog maybe?) were just astounding. Trees stripped of their leaves and branches, just trunks standing there with two months worth of growth on them. FEMA trailers were at Coldwater Lake where we camped last night. P.S. The campsite at Coldwater Lake was A-Mazing! No mosquitoes. No bikes tied up in trees in the morning or other sketchiness which I will only describe on the phone. Big pavilion, a cool breeze from the lake, tents pitched under gently rustling trees, and as if all that wasn't enough, I am thoroughly out of my biking mid-trip slump and am SO ENERGIZED AND EXCITED FOR WHAT'S COMING!! Kansas is beautiful. Oklahoma was too. I have had some great bike rides and great conversations, and I love my teammates. This Saturday Mom is flying to Colorado Springs, and then we will be surrounded by the breathtaking Rocky Mountains!
I have a lot more to write about but the computer lab at the library closes in about 5 minutes! I put up some new pictures today on the second batch on Webshots, and I'm sorry I can't write more about them right now. I am doing great, and something very exciting is that Andrew, who was hit by a car in Memphis, is rejoining the trip this Saturday in Colorado Springs also!
We are SO GLAD to have him back because it has felt like a missing limb ever since he was hurt.
More ASAP. Thanks for all of your mail and emails and encouragement. My mail drops are under one of the first blog entries in May :o)
Love, Emily
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