The Bullwinkle Chronicles

By: Bob Seymour

straight. By the time I got to Wichita I was ready for a break and the weather forced me to spend almost a week at my friends place before I had another two day window to make it to Colorado. While I was in Wichita I noticed that my tires were in rough shape so my friend took me over to the shop where he has work done on his scooter so I could have tires and brake pads installed while Dave and I went to a weekend men’s retreat.

I could have ridden straight through from Wichita to Longmont but I didn’t want to push myself too hard so I contacted a brother in Wakeeney Kansas and spent the night with him and his wife before making the final leg of the trip. I took the southern route, US-54 outta Wichita to Dodge City because it was about 10* warmer than going north to pick up I-70 east. The wind between Wichita and Dodge City was blowing out of the southwest at 35mph with 50mph gusts which made my arms feel totally exhausted. I took US-283 north out of Dodge City into Wakeeney and I was so glad the wind was at my back for the last couple of hours.

I had a really good time in Wakeeney with my friends Curtis and his Wife Jenn but I could only stay one night because the weather window was going to slam shut the day after I left. It was a chilly ride the rest of the way across Kansas and all the way across Colorado to Longmont and to make it even worse my heated grips stopped working on the way to Dodge City. I was thanking God for the heated vest a brother in Longmont gave me a couple years ago because it kept my core warm.