Day 12

July 18

Today we biked 102 miles due west towards Colorado. We reach the border in about 15 miles. Today was much less hot than previously and the wind wasn’t in our face so the miles went fairly quickly and pleasantly. Now that we’re almost through Kansas, I can say that it’s a pretty homogeneous state. A few hills sparsely situated and towns that all seem to be organized around a train track and a grain elevator. The people have all been very cordial, but the towns seem to be about only halfway populated.

We stopped today in Tribune Kansas, which is the county seat which has 770 people.
The county is Greeley county, named after Horace Greeley, even though he never came anywhere close to Kansas. I went to the county historical museum, which is a lovely old former courthouse. The people working there also had no clue how Horace Greeley ended up the namesake of the county.