6 days, 487 miles

Amarillo Texas!! How did I get here!? I still can't believe that my legs have pedaled me this far and are going to keep going for another 40 days.

Here are some thoughts and photos from the last 6 days:
Dallas to Boyd Texas; 100 miles, still recovering from being sick and not able to eat food, so I sustained myself with Naked protein drinks from gas stations. We passed thru Justin, and had there not been another 20 miles and being sick I would have stopped at the boot shop. But just outside of town there was an amazing field of sunflowers!!

Boyd to Witchita Falls; 92 miles, Wichita Falls was a ghost town. It would be a great town for filming a zombie apocalypse movie. A tornado in the 80s wiped out the city and most folks left instead of rebuilding. We stayed in a YMCA and over night our van and trailer were assaulted. Someone slashed 4 tires and our leaders had to spend the morning finding a tire shop to come out and fix them on the spot.

Wichita Falls to Lawton Oklahoma; 57 miles, Marlee and I were sweep and had a blast riding with amazing views if the OK sky and flying kites in the casino parking lot. And meeting the mayor of Cookie town!

Lawton to Altus; 58 miles, 4$ breakfast at a random diner on the side of the road!! Biscuit and gravey with eggs sausage abs hash browns!! Beautiful ride thru the Wichita Mountains.

Altus, OK to Memphis, TX; 73 miles, ran into 3 guys riding across the country Connecticut to Las Vegas Nevada. It was awesome to ride with them for a few miles and trade stories. Seeing their bikes loaded down it made me really appreciate our beautiful van and trailer.

Memphis to Amarillo TX; 107 miles, Today we were joined by Paul. He is a church member from our host in Amarillo and has ridden with B&B the last 4 years. We definitely took the cake with our ride though. Had an amazing morning riding the hills from Memphis to Clarendon and then had a terrifying few hours riding thru huge lightning strikes. We did stop during the worst part for shelter in an abandoned house that actually may not have been abandoned. The final 40 miles of our ride was beautiful and sunny and warm and there was even the occasional tail wind. I enjoyed riding with Paul for the entire day and learning extra tidbits about the area.

Each picture below represents each ride day.

And now for an awesome day off in Amarillo!!!