Crossroads 2018 - LA to Boston

Distance:  39.6 miles Elevation Gain:   +370 ft. or 9.3 ft./mile Net elevation change: -282 ft. Click Here to Ride Along !! Short, straight and slightly downhill sums up this route. Even better we had a tailwind and not the forcasted cross/headwinds. It almost qualified as a rest day. We didn't leave Guymon until 9 am and a t about mile 34 we crossed our fifth state line and entered our sixth state.  Even with a stop at the Mid-America Air Museum in Liberal, we still got to the hotel too early to check in. Perfect excuse to get some lunch at Angie's Barbecue Food Truck across from the hotel. Got an excellent barbecue sausage sandwich.  Turns out Angie also catered our dinner of ribs, chicken, corn-on-the-cob, beans, green beans, coleslaw and potato salad. Went back for seconds on the ribs, corn and coleslaw.  Pretty sure this was the best dinner so far on the tour. Last night there were six pickup trucks from Seaboard Foods in the hotel parking lot and t

Distance: 72.4 miles Elevation Gain: 389 ft. or 5.4 ft./mile Net elevation change: -865 ft. Click Here to Ride Along !! Today and tomorrow we will ride about 110 miles compared to the 278 over the last three days. An additional bonus is the gross climbing is almost Florida-like with under 400 feet each day.   While the terrain was flatter and the distance shorter, the headwind was very similar to yesterday.  Overall, not as tough as yesterday.   It was nice to get to the hotel at a reasonable hour and be able to get a burger at a local place, Round Top Burgers and Pizza, located in a converted and renovated Quonset hut. Quite good! We only got to Texas yesterday and today we left it and entered Oklahoma at about the 50 mile mark, our fourth state line crossing and fifth state.  This might be the straightest route we have on the entire tour as we get on and stay on US 54 traveling Northeast the entire day. Right out of Dalhart it is pretty obvious that we are bac