SW Adventure

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Tuesday, May 19, 2026 (626 miles)
Today was another day mostly dedicated to getting farther south, but I did do a little sightseeing. If you are ever in St Francis Kansas, stop in at the motorcycle museum and ask Lyle about his Maico dirt bike and the collection of trophies surrounding it. I stopped at a couple tri-point markers today, and mount sunflower which is the highest point in kansas. A couple minutes after I got there, some people showed up and they told me they were revisiting the place where their wedding proposal happened 35 years ago. After that, I went through the Kansas Badlands, which to be honest, was less impressive than I thought it would be. It is interesting in that it is so incongruous with everything around it for quite a distance. After leaving that area, it was flatlands all the way to Boise City Oklahoma. It seemed like every town I went through had a town on the left, comprised of mostly abandoned buildings or buildings that should be abandoned, co-op silos on the right, and an oddly well-kept cemetery. There must have been a dozen of those towns. When I got to the hotel, a pair pulled up on motorcycles as I was unloading. The lady turned out to be an anthropology professor from chicago, riding back home after transversing most of route 66. She and her riding companion had just come up through Las Cruces and Taos, NM. She was also on a CB500X Honda, but one version older than mine.