27may, on to emporia, KS. Unbound gravel race.

 Today’s ride is dedicated to Anna strain, Tim, and Isaiah. Isaiah is a young child fighting brain cancer. If you feel like donating to the cancer society to help fight cancer and help the victims you can access it through this link.

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So if you are not familiar with Emporia and Unbound here’s a great link to learn about it. It’s a pretty cool race and I’m sure there will be plenty of videos about it on YouTube etc.

Unbound

So the morning started off with a pretty neat cloud picture. I also have a picture of a cemetery, I know kind of weird but, it’s labeled Lehigh which is a town and county in Pennsylvania I visit and it’s a Mennonite cemetery and it was very well-maintained.

The first sag stop is at Marion Reservoir and it was just very picturesque. Plus, I found a mulberry tree. The berries are in season but unfortunately the low branches have been cut making it difficult to get to the berries.  alas… where there’s a will there’s a way.

Of course you must have a life jacket to boat so they had some hanging that you could borrow….. ehhhhh I’m not sure I would rely on those.

Notice how the geography is changing; it’s much greener, more hills, more “tree patches” etc.

Along with the occasional “ road to nowhere” and a farmer out cutting his field.

The second SAG stop was in flint hills and it looks like we’re just a bit too early for the local rodeo.  Darn,  I love local rodeos, and I’m sorry I’ll miss it.

Finally, some pictures of barns and more landscape.

And lastly, this great picture of a schoolhouse, not sure if it’s a one room schoolhouse but it seems to be too small to have more than one room, it even has a hand pump for water toward the side.  Reminds me of the one near our farm in Briggsdale, Co.

Well that’s all I have to share. Tomorrow is a rest day so I’m pretty sure I won’t be posting. It will be a day of bike wash, nap, clothes wash, nap, eat, nap, eat again and at some point prep for Wednesday.