55th Class Reunion on a Two-Wheeled SUV:
A Two-Wheeled What?
Laying On the Utility
Thinking Small for a Big Trip
Day 1: Tucson to Las Cruces
Day 2: The Road to Santa Rosa
Day 3: Kittycorner to Kansas
Days 4 and 5: Wet Wichita, Sunny St. Joseph
Day 6: This Way to Humboldt
Enjoying Humboldt (Iowa)
Gas Tank Blackjack
The Real Kansas in Technicolor
A Liberal Dose of Memories
Holbrook? How Did We Wind Up In Holbrook?
Painted, Petrified, and Perfect
The Home Home Stretch
Day 3 of return: Wichita to Liberal. At last! The weather is sunny, and I stop for pictures. This is the stretch where I had been impressed with the scenery five years earlier.
The way I remember, it was in black and white.
Idyllic scene, right? Adventures, however, never cease. See where my bike was parked? As near the edge as I could place it, and this was a nice, wide, paved shoulder. (Perspective foreshortens it somewhat in the picture. It was about six feet wide.)
So I'm standing there beside the bike, with my back to the road, when there's a mighty rumbling behind me. Drat, that truck sure didn't see fit to yield much of the lane. Casually looking to my left, I see what went by. It was a wide load. A house, no less. I think it had been driving with a little of the parlor hanging over the shoulder!
