Day 29 continued...

Day 29: Cassoday, KS

Tonight we are camping at the city park in Cassoday, Kansas. Despite camping out last night we departed camp early this morning and were on the road by 7:00 a.m.

Twenty miles into our ride we reached Eureka, Kansas where we stopped to pick up groceries, visit the library and Alex, Mike, Andrew and I headed to the Prairie Grass Steakhouse & Saloon for a warm second breakfast. For a decent price I enjoyed two pieces of French toast, a scrambled egg and bowl of oatmeal along with coffee! I have nothing against eating peanut butter and jelly for breakfast and have gotten rather creative with it however given the chance to have French toast, I couldn’t pass it up!

After finishing our food we headed back to the library where we used the internet, made phone calls to future churches and hung out before heading back to G.W. Foods (the grocery store) to buy food for lunch. As I had just eaten an hour before I wasn’t all that hungry but I knew that I needed calories to hold me the remainder of the ride and had a Boston Cream yogurt, a banana and an Almond Joy bar. With only 40 more miles to cover we decided to take our time and napped in the gazebo across from the store while waiting for Alex and Drew to return from the pool.

When we finally got on the road it was mid-afternoon and without a cloud in the sky the sun beat down on us the entire way. We made one last stop, taking a 20-minute break in Rosalia at ‘The Old Hat’ where we signed their travelers guestbook enjoyed cold water and soda and chatted with the owner before heading on our way. By this point the land had flattened out a lot from earlier in the day and we enjoyed our ride into Cassoday playing numerous games. Nick found a blue ball along the side of the road so we played catch for awhile before turning to a game of cracker toss with the crackers Nick had left over from lunch to finish the ride. Cracker toss is a game where the rider in front (i.e. Nick) tosses crackers up in the air and the rider behind him tries to catch them while riding.

Our group consisting of Anish, Nick, Alex, Andrew, Drew and I were the last ones to reach camp for the day and when we pulled into Cassoday (which I must add is the Prairie Chicken Capital of the World according to the signs) we found camp already set up in the city park. Some of the team was talking to two guys from Massachusetts who were riding west to east while the rest of the group was lounging around. Nick, Jon and Keith set up the stove on a picnic table and made the team pasta for dinner. After helping clean the dishes from dinner Drew and I walked to the convenient store up the road where I bought a .85 cent ice cream sandwich and a 2/.99 cent pack of vanilla cream cookies along with a snickers bar for the morning. We also took advantage of the bathroom facilities with running water as the park only had outhouses and a water spicket.