Day 48: 39 miles, Jul 5

Well, I guess I was still recovering from those two big days, because I slept until 9 this morning in my motel room in Newton. I went to the PO to pick up the maildrops containing supplies to overhaul my wheel hubs and a new chain. It took me about three hours to do all this, so I didn't get going until 4 pm. I camped in the city park of Cassoday, KS, which was filled with fireflies, or, as we Hendersons call them, lightning bugs. These, and the cicadas, were the first suggestion that I'm nearing familiar territory.

Passed my town on the way...