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Day 167 – 11/7/11 – Helping Hands Ministry

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Garfield to Larned; Distance = 10 Miles; People Met = 5 The day to Larned started out poorly but ended up well.  They say bad news happens in threes.  The first bit of bad news was the rainy weather.  The … Continue reading

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Day 166 – 11/6/11 – United Methodist Church

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Kinsley to Garfield; Distance = 13 Miles; People Met = 17+ We hopped between United Methodist Churches today.  In the morning we attended the Kinsley service, the fourth Sunday in a row we were able to do that.  I got … Continue reading

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Days 164-165 – 11/4-5/11 – Kansas Wind

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Dodge City to Kinsley; Distance = 36 Miles; People Met = 9 Kansans seem to take a small amount of pride in how windy the plains are.  Up until this stretch I’ve been tempted to ask “What wind?” Granted, our … Continue reading

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Day 163 – 11/3/11 – Heading into Dodge

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Cimarron to Dodge; Distance = 20 Miles; People Met = 2 We drove into Dodge City yesterday, fulfilling some obligations while avoiding the storm.  Today we hiked into Dodge.  We started the day off dropping in on Clark Drug to … Continue reading

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Days 161-162 – 11/1-2/11 – Cimarron

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Pierceville to Cimarron; Distance = 15 Miles; People Met = 10 We arrived at the Cimarron Hotel last night knowing of a storm blowing in.  This hotel is more historic than active; Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday stayed here.  You … Continue reading

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Days 159-160 – 10/30-31/11 – Garden City

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Holcomb to Pierceville; Distance = 23 Miles; People Met = 14 For the third Sunday in a row we attended a church service.  This time it was a UCC church.  Since they were having a Missions Sunday I gave a … Continue reading

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Days 157-158 – 10/28-29/11 – Arkansas River Road

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Kendall to Holcomb; Distance = 42 Miles; People Met = 0 Two days without meeting anyone in Kansas?  How can that be?  For one thing we were mainly on the sparsely trafficked River Road that parallels the Arkansas River, US … Continue reading

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Day 156 – 10/27/11 – Bread

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Syracuse to Kendall; Distance = 8 Miles; People Met = 3 We slack packed today out of Syracuse and then came back to spend another night here, this time in the First Christian Church.  I gave a talk at the … Continue reading

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Day 155 – 10/26/11 – Syracuse, KS

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River Road to Syracuse, KS; Distance = 9 Miles; People Met = 5 After shaking the dust out of our tent from the previous night’s storm, we had a short but chilly morning hike into Syracuse.  We drank hot tea … Continue reading

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Day 154 – 10/25/11 – More Milestones

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Holly to River Road, KS; Distance = 14 Miles; People Met = 4 We experienced a few milestones today.  First and foremost, we finally crossed the border into a new state, Kansas, after spending over two months in Colorado.  This … Continue reading

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