7/2/20 – Arkansas We left our campsite in Grove, Oklahoma and traveled due east to Missouri. Trees, lots of trees were emerging as we moved away from the Great Plains. The wind lessened, and the flat terrain gave way to
7/1/20 – Reflections of Sunride 3
7/1/20 – Reflections of Sunride 3 Sunride through the Great Plains states is now complete. This is the great wind corridor of the country with thousands of turbines in every state, I saw them in Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota,
6/29/20 – Koch Industries, Wichita, Kansas
6/29/20 – Koch Industries, Wichita, Kansas Today was a travel day. Sunride, not able to operate with a blown rear tire, was carried through Kansas. One of the stops I’d hope to make in Kansas was at Koch Industries in
6/28/20 – Shot Down in Texas
6/28/20 – Shot Down in Texas I planned out my route the day before. From Clayton, NM to Dalhart, TX, then continuing northeast to Texhoma, a small town on the border of Texas and Oklahoma. It would be a 100-mile
6/26/20 – Colorado, Oklahoma, New Mexico
6/26/20 – Colorado, Oklahoma, New Mexico After spending the night in Lamar, Colorado we awoke to a sunny, clear, gorgeous day. Somehow the days seem brighter in Colorado, and the colors too. It’s probably the altitude and the thin air,
6/25/20 – Colorado Wind Turbines and Storms
6/25/20 – Colorado Wind Turbines and Storms Driving from Sterling, Colorado south along the border with Kansas we saw thousands of wind turbines. I am always enchanted by these powerful beauties. In places they were very near the road,
6/23/20 – Hot Springs, S.D. to Chadron, Nebraska
6/23/20 Hot Springs, S.D. to Chadron, Nebraska We left Rapid City early and drove to Hot Springs, South Dakota to see the largest collection of Mammoth remains ever found. What happened 140,000 years ago was that a bunch of male
6/22/20 – Rapid City, South Dakota
6/22/20 – Rapid City, South Dakota On our first night in Rapid City, South Dakota my cousin Barb came over to our campsite. We sat outside on the picnic table talking. I hadn’t seen her in ten years and we
6/20/20 – Medora, North Dakota
6/20/20 – Medora, North Dakota Spent the day today in Medora, N.D. where Theodore Roosevelt had a ranch and spent his time healing from the death of his wife and mother who both died on the same day. It was
6/17/20 – Sunride Chapter 3 Begins
6/17/20 – Sunride Chapter 3 Begins For weeks now after I was turned away at the Tesla gigafactory because of the Corona virus I’ve been racking my brain how to continue the quest of riding my solar powered electric bike