Guesthouse Intl Canterbury Parsons

Our first night of camping. We visited Will Roger's birthplace that was only a couple miles away. We walked on the boat docks down in the marina. There were a couple hundred boats there, pontoon party boats and sail boats. We saw some really beautiful sailboats.

... the cave that was over 1000 ft deep with trout up to two ft long
In the afternoon we went trick or treating at some friends (Brian and Anna) from Arizona who know live in Northern, Arkansas, They really have a pretty place to live, while sitting on their couch I saw a white flag in the forest waving, I knew right away it was a white tail deer. The area being is a heavily tree-ed hollow very thick woods ...

... 66.78. We spent over an hour in the pool and hot tub last night. We were the only ones there. The room is big, clean and well appointed. It is our best deal yet.

Today is a beautiful day, we have full sun. Breakfast at the motel was waffles, fresh - we made them ourselves in the lobby.

Tonight we will camp. We have already found a campground near Tulsa, OK. that we think we will like and maybe even stay a couple of nights.

Just a quick update. I headed out of Mississippi yesterday around 8am, passed through Memphis, TN, turned left and entered Arkansas. BTW - although I didn't stop - the Buffallo River looked spectacular as did the Ozarks (I took the back roads). Hit MO early afternoon and past the tony area of Branson (gotta go back there!). I wanted to push it to make it into ...

Due to available places to stay the days cycling was not very long. The options were either 60 miles or 100 miles and so the cyclists naturally chose to cycle the lesser distance. Even though it was the last day on the flat the headwinds continued to make life difficult. We ended up in a Super 8 Motel in Chanute, Kansas. At the motel we met another cyclist heading in the opposite direction for Pediatrics. We exchanged ...

... out more about this country in the last 12hrs then i have known about all of the other countries I have been to. Mr. Dean picked us up at our hotel about lunch time. He surprised us with a local bottle of rum (Fernandes Black Label Rum) and the "local man's beer" (Stag). Even though I hadn't eaten yet and it was before noon, I wasn't going to be rude and turn down a good rum and coke! After two glasses of it, he luckily took us to this little shop on the ...

... and Ozarks are behind us. We begin, I've been told, over the next week or so, a gradual climb to the Rockies. Today we are in Pittsburg, KS where we will remain for a rest day tomorrow (Sunday). I am having my bicycle tuned up; but so far, no mechanical difficulties (nor flat tires). James

After going to Elk Falls we went hiking at Elk City Lake which is right outside Independence Kansas. We did the medium sized hike with the length of 5.5 miles. The weather was great...sunny, breezy and about 70 degrees. Soon after starting the hike, we came across a garden snake which scared the ...

... hero mommy came to help. I got sick of organizing... or trying to, so I headed to the lake. Yes, drove to the lake, weird. Mom met me there. Our boat doesn't have perfect pass. Yet another addition to the **** storm ( the biggest headache so far if you ask me). So I just tricked, yeehaw. And later that evening thanks to my good buddies Todd and Brian, got a slalom set in. Yeah, don't wanna talk about it.... Have you ever gone from cold fast water and a LPG ...

On the flat lands now. Miles of prairie and they have weather here. Amazing thunderstorms on and off all day. One in progress right now. Sky goes totally black, rain/hail, the works. Only touristy bits today were Dodge City which retains nothing of its past apart from tired recreations for tourists, and the actual wagon wheel ruts on the Santa Fe trail.