Goodland KS to Junction City, KS

Yesterday we dealt with wind most of the afternoon, the rider behind me said my bike was riding at a 45 degree angle all the way across Kansas!  Go figure - wind in Kansas.

Here's a pic I took after Breakfast at Goodland (riders meeting with Platoon Leaders) this morning,  The platoons get their final instructions before we head out across more of Kansas.  We had so much open space that platoons looked tiny, they had several clusters of riders out in the open air.  We don't know what to do with so much space on Run For The Wall!!

Goodland really turned out - it's so amazing to see small towns come out on their lawns, step out to the curb, come downtown to the center of their hometowns and greet us waving flags, holding banners, honking horns, truly a heroes welcome for all the HEROES in our pack ... always outstanding job.  Thank you Goodland.

So fun seeing Kevin's bike set up for Registration ... we've got people trained now to look for his bike - and the wonderful canopy supplied by Annie - super job.

We were promised more than last year in Junction City, and oh my goodness, I wish there was a way to take pictures and ride (well there probably is but it wouldn't be safe for me to attempt it).  We rode into a town that had people out all along our route, then when we hit the intersection that took us to their memorial park, there were so many people holding full size flags, narrowing our path to simply just enough room to ride through flags, it was a RED, WHITE and BLUE tearful event, I could hear sobs over the rumble of bikes ...