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Finish mo into Ks and now in afton ok: 3 states in one day!

6/27/2020

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It Is not boring to say that it was a dry day.  It got up to upper 80s.  I was fighting a headwind most of the day of 13 mph. 

From Joplin there were a few more miles in Missouri and  a small part of the ride in  a corner of Kansas and down south into Oklahoma.
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 Luckily the street was not this crowded today.  Galena, KS was just a lead mine to begin  with and the town was formed and it boomed.
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The train station houses the history museum.  That is well worth the stop.  Drop money in their jar.
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The Eisler Brother Store and been in Riverton  since 1925. Today is gives you what you need.
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Empire dam falls are due to the local power plant.  I liked the view.
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i remember the road side park on the two lane roads that we traveled when I was a kid.  When I looked up what Google could show me, I find that the idea came from a Michigander, Herbert Larsen.  In 1918 he was a recent U of Michigan engineering grad working for the highway department.  He could not find a place to stop and do a cookout while he was traveling.  He purchases a plot along U.S. 2 in the Upper Peninsula and created what he could not find elsewhere.  The idea really caught on.  Now we call them rest stops.
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Tomorrow will be another hot day and hopefully it won't be too winding
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I am pleased with my progress. 
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