Day 29: Walnut Grove, MO to Pittsburg, KS.

Miles today: 76.
Total miles: 1812.

The terrain finally flattened out! Much better for my own self esteem in keeping up with the boys. Stopped in Golden City, Missouri to try the pie that we'd been hearing about since we got into Missouri. It was worth it! A million different types of pie and all of them delicious. Met three new cyclists today, two of which we had pie with. Dave and Kari are headed to Oregon and are planning on staying there and finding jobs; how adventurous! As soon as we sat down at the pie place, Cooky's Cafe, the waitress put a notebook on the table that had signatures from literally hundreds of bikers who'd stopped there. It was pretty cool to read some of them-- one person had drawn an illustration of a cyclist on his bike having a conveyor belt shovel pies into his mouth.

Crossed another state line and stopped for the night in Pittsburg, Kansas. Lou and I will be taking a rest day tomorrow and Danny and Greg are moving on. I'm pretty sad to have them leave us, but they don't want to take the day off tomorrow, so we'll be parting ways. Library tomorrow, so I'll try to do something about the photo situation and I'll be sending out those Missouri postcards. Last chance, people: send me yer postal information.