Today was an interesting day. No new injuries, so that’s good! I got up pretty early, a rather cool morning (ok, probably 80 degrees, but with the winds here, it feels a LOT cooler). A mite windy here, 22 mph winds, with gusts up to 37. No wonder they have so many windmills everywhere!
Ok, I did ride part of the trail (Switchgrass Trail, at Wilson State Park), and it was pretty darned nice – ok, not the “black diamond” part, I should have bypassed that one, but the rest of what I rode was good. Not much shade (as in less than 1% of the ride has shade!), but with the breeze, it’s very enjoyable, at least in the morning. Later in the day it got to 102, and that was NOT a good time to be outside.
Being so hot, and Barri being injured still, we went into town to get some supplies. “Went into town” means driving almost 60 miles to Hays, where there’s a Walmart Supercenter. Fun stuff! While “in town” we ate at “Carlos O’Kelly’s Mexican Cafe”. Ok, I know what you’re thinking, and you’d be right. Mexican food in Kansas? At a place called Carlos O’Kelly’s? Well, I like to try places, sometimes for how BAD they are. This was actually fairly good! I had the “Tacos en Fuego” (Tacos on Fire), and it was fairly good-tasting (so much for the tacoS part – I only got one), and spicier than I expected, almost too hot to be enjoyable. I liked it. Would I do it again? I didn’t like it THAT much, so probably not. Barri had Tacos de Monterrey, which were chicken tacos with some kind of sauce. Again, not bad, but probably would not return, as it wasn’t that good. A place has to be better than just ok to get me back, unless everything else is worse, and around here, that IS a possibility.
Oh yeah, another thing we saw here – oil people. LOTS of oil people, and lots of pump-jacks, something we used to see in Texas a lot back in the 80s, but pretty rare today. They all moved to Kansas, I guess. Again, photos when I get some wi-fi later in the week (as in, hopefully tomorrow!)
Ok, as promised, here are some photos!
In some parts near the park, they use these stones as fence posts. It’s pretty cool!
The park itself from a distance looks like this:
Parts along the trail look like this:
And this:
And at dusk, like this:
The park itself looks like this:
VERY nice place – definitely going back soon!
Gorgeous photos!
Thank you! I am trying to make them more than just snapshots, though sometimes that’s tough top do! Well, if it was easy, anybody could do it!