More Kansas

Hello,
Another update for you. We are now 5 states and over 1000 miles into our journey which is, as of today, 1/3 of the way done. We are spending the afternoon in Mankato, Kansas. We had a late start this morning, but the Kansas terrain and weather have been so nice that we didn't have a problem reaching our half destination by lunch time. For the past two days we have had a great tailwind that has made everything so much easier. We are looking forward to our rest day tomorrow in Smith Center, Kansas, which is the geographic center of the contiguous United States and also about halfway across the state. The nice, slowly rolling hills of eastern Kansas are dissappearing rapidly and the state is becoming flatter by the minute, which unfortunately means stronger headwinds. Last night we stayed in Belleville, Kansas at Pastor Lennie's house. They had this gigantic dog with the largest eyes I've ever seen. He had a look of perpetual suprise. We all enjoyed falling asleep to the early 90's classic movie Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland. We are down to a riding party of four for the day as most of our crowd is already is Smith Center giving a series of workshops to the Smith Center, Chamber of Commerce. They will be giving workshops on passive solar heating and cooling, vermicomposting, driving a veggie oil truck, and giving a plant walk if time permits. Speaking of veggie oil, yesterday in Washington, Kansas, our support drivers for the day found hundreds of gallons of perfect waste veggie oil for our truck. We ate at the man's restaurant, which had delicous mashed potatoes, saurkraut, and lemonade and he said that we could take as much of it as we could hold. We can only hold about 120 gallons, but that should give us enough fuel to get us almost through Nevada. That's it for now.
cheers,
Tyler