Today we needed to bike 127 miles so that we could be within biking distance to a bike store in Guymon to get Casey's bike fixed. In order to tide us over till we got there (cause we had broken pumps and broken tubes) we bought some patches for tubes and some sealant inflator canister from Kmart, the only store with any kind of bike stuff.
Today, we made it 70 miles in just over 3 hours before we both got flats and Bryce busted his actual tire. We put in our new tire that we carried as a spare. We then proceeded to use the patches on all four of our spare tubes as well as the sealant, without any success, ruining our spare tubes. The patches were not very good.
We finally gave up the battle and hitched a ride to dalhart Texas from a super chill man, Gilbert, who runs a tire business in dalhart. Before we could, we were stranded on the side of the road for a couple hours. We stopped at a steakhouse in dalhart where Casey got his first texas steak! Bryce downed a bacon cheeseburger.
We managed to get a hold of the branch presidency in dalhart who drove us the rest of the way into guymon where the closest bike store was located. Thanks brother jerry leisure!
Despite everything that happened today, we very much enjoyed meeting and greeting people. We had a wonderful time at the steakhouse with our awesome texas waiter, Cheryl, awho is as Texan as you could possibly be as well as the rest if the restaurant who was very good to us. Jerry leisure was so good to us, a Vietnamese war veteran, and was our hero for driving us all the way to guymon. We very much enjoyed talking with him.
Also we met a fellow traveler on the road today, WALKING the other way from New York to Huntington Beach California, Don Erickson. He is raising awareness for organ donations. He has been walking for almost a year now. Truly amazing!
Check out his cause:
Us and jerry leisure
Casey and don Erickson
I like that man.
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