[TriLUG] [OT] motorcycles

[Greg Brown]

Awesome!  What a ride that must have been.

I grew up in Arizona.. lots of long, straight, flat roads.  Just flat enough
to lull you into a trance and then *BLAM* a huge dip in the road where a dry
river (we call them "washes") flow!  That'll wake you up in a hurry.


> I rode a 10 speed bicycle from Chicago to Oklahoma City in autumn 1972.
> Part
> of that trip was highway 169 between Kansas City Kansas on the
> Kansas/Missouri border and Coffeyville Kansas on the Kansas/Oklahoma
> border.
> It was a pretty fast trip through Kansas (2 days) because it was so flat,
> but
> man, it was boring, boring boring.
>
> I stayed my first night in a public park in Garnett, Kansas, right next to
> a
> cattlemen's school were the students walked around in brand new, never been
> dirtied, jeans, boots, hats etc. It was wierd. IIRC it snowed on me in
> Coffeyville or the next night (half way between Coffeyville and Tulsa).
>
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