Hyatt Place Topeka
6021 S.W. Sixth Ave., (formerly AmeriSuites) Topeka, Kansas, 66615, United States
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Topeka, Kansas
We stayed in Topeka last night and then started train investigating this morning. We started with the Great Overland UP Station which is now being turned into a historic building, model railroad, and rail car museum. Plus we got in a little UP train watching (in the fog) while walking around the area.
We tried visiting the ...
We are in Kansas, Dorothy!
... hotel just in time for a special dinner they were having. They invited us to eat here so we saved a few dollars on dinner. We then walked to Wal Mart and Barb picked up some Diet A&W and ice cream. We had the best floats ever. Now we're kicking back and relaxing until we head out tomorrow on our way toward the AZ State Rally in Heber. Pray for us as we ride southwest.
God Bless!
Paul
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Full steam ahead!
... he wanted to get in the clear ASAP! Kansas is called the sunflower state, and we saw why, the whole way here, along interstate 70, there were fields and fields of planted sunflowers! The air smelled sweet, and reminded us of the fall on Long Island.
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Best B&B in Shawnee
Day 2 of our trip we visited with our friends, Darrell and Jane Watts, formerly of Lake Orion. The guys spent time at the World War I memorial while Jane and I toured the world headquarters of Hallmark.
We took in a model train exhibit, ...
Hilly Hundred
... the energy out of us.
Our ride started out at a decent pace for the heat and the terrain, but by mile 80 or so we had been reduced to a crawl. It's not that we had tired legs or sore bodies necessarily; it's that the sun and the heat have a way of just sucking out energy over time leaving us feeling completely depleted with many miles left.
Despite the challenge, we had three highlights on today's ride. The first, in my opinion anyways, is ...



