"Life is the great adventure ride. Twist the throttle hard."

July 15 – We left Denver early, and the weather was great.  Sam had a sore arm yesterday, and today it felt worse.  After a couple hours of riding, it hurt bad enough to have it looked at.  We stopped in the ER at Hugo Colorado and had it X-rayed. The guys at the ER were great.  I highly recommend going to Hugo if you ever need to go to the ER. 

The X-rays showed it was not broke.  Probably a pulled something from the go-cart race the other day.  By noon, we were back on the road.  We knocked out 380 miles today. A little less than planned, but did have quite a few nice breaks.  We checked out a couple automobile junk-yards that were packed with 1940-60 era cars.  The guys even let me go through an antique shop.  At the CO boarder, we found a wind-mill blade to take a break under.

We ran into a wall of rain in Kansas, but as we got closer, we were able to spot some sunshine, and timed our travels so that we slipped through the wall without getting too wet.

We rolled into Dodge City Kansas at sunset, checked out another steam engine, and got a nice steak dinner.  Sam’s icing his arm now and hopefully in the morning its all good. 

July 16 –  Eastern Kansas

You’ll see there are very few pictures of Kansas.  Two reasons.  1)Not much to take pictures of  2)My camera is laying somewhere on highway 400 between Dodge City and Wichita.

4:00 pm at a gas station near no-where, I had a Homer Simpson moment – D’oh!   My bike would not start.  Remember that flaky starter safety switch problem a few days ago.  Yup, it up and died.  After a half-hour of trying to troubleshoot it, we gave up and some friendly locals helped us push-start the bike.  The next harley shop that is open will be tomorrow in new Orleans, so we’ll be push-starting it and keeping it running all day till we get there.  We planned to go into the shop there anyway, because it is time for a new rear wheel and oil change.