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BIKE TOUR: THE CONQUES On the morning of May 22, 198 7, two Valparaiso University students began a journey on bicycles from the shores of the Pacific Ocean in Los Angeles to Valparaiso University. Equipped With good rowing bikes, spare bike parts, limited packer money and fierce determination, Scott Lohr and Dan O'Connor started a 22-day unforgettable trip across the country. Day 1. Los Angeles, smog, Pacific Ocean. Start, Traffic. Earthquakes GremorsL minor mountains. Energy to burn. Stopping place: Beaumont, Calf. Day 2. Desert traveling, rationing of water, girls in bikinis, cactus, sweat, heat. Stopping place: Desert Center, Calf. Day 3. Endless Mojave Desert, parched throats, Arizona border, ice cream, rootbeer float, and banana split mirages, early stop for Birthday Celebration. Stopping place: Quartasite, Ariz. Day 4. Early morning hangover, loss of half of water supply to thirsty man Un sympathyL watermelon reststop. Sick of desert. Stopping place: Buckeye, Ariz Day 5. Cooler, Phoenix, boring 1but anything beats deserU, courteous people, rugged terrain. Rocky Mountains nearing? Stopping place: Florence Junction, Arizona Day 6. MOUNTAINS, wetter than desert'n No. Stopping place: Globe, Ariz. Day 7. Salt River Canyon. Seven miles down, seven years up. Stopping place: Show Low, Ariz. Day 8. Relief! 100 miles on 7000 ft plateau. Now pouring rain, can't win. Stopping place: Springerville, Ariz. Day 9. New Mexico! Finally. Towns: Red Hill: non-existent, Omega: could not be found, Pie Town: pies U guess; Continental Divide. Stopping place: Datil, New Mexico Day 10. Sunday. Church. Mountain storms, some severe. Took refuge in a culvert to overt one. Discovered snake in culvert. Decided the storm was lesser of two evils. Stopping place: Lemitar, New Mexico Day 11. 127 mile day. Wind at back to say the least. Stopping place: Vaughn, New Mexico Day 12. 98 mile day. Wind in face, to say the least. Motel. Showers long overdue. Stopping place: Tucumcari, New Mexico Day 13. Texas! First Accident. We collided. It figures. Lone Star State, I love it. Stopping place: Dalhart, Texas Day 14. Covered three states today. Panhandle of Oklahoma. Flat. Fast. Fun. Midwest, here we come! Stopping place: Liberal, Kansas Day 15. Southern Kansas. Tourist area. 11Wor1d's Largest Hand Dug Well cost 860: to visit. Don't miss it. Stopping place: Greensburg, Kansas Day 16. Central Kansas. No highlights in Central Kansas. Stopping Place: Wichita, Kansas Day 17. Sunday. Church. Rest and Relaxation. Still biked 127 miles. Running out of money, energy, time, enthusiasm and patience. Kansas really sucks. We need a new state. Missouri is out there. Stopping place: Lyon County State
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Lake, Kansas Day 18. New day. New energy, patience, enthusiasm. Still out of time and money. However, seven 171 pancakes apiece for breakfast thaven't lost our hunger; Great day. Cruised into Missouri before sundown. Stopping place: Lewis and Clark State Park, Missouri Day 19. Missouri, the show-me-state. Show me what? Known for it's roller- coaster highways, water snakes, pushy waitresses, and Mark Twain. We met them all. Stopping place: Chillicothe, Missouri Day 20. One goal today: Make it to the Illinois state line. We did it, but found no place to stay once we did. Motel? Out of the question. Depleted money supply. Now what? Call a friend. Can a cop. 30 minutes later we were in Hannibal Municipal Police Station. Cells 103 and 104 respectively. At least we were safe all night, and it was free. Free in jail? Stopping place: Hannibal, Missouri Day 21. Today started when we were rudely awaken at 3 am. by the cell guard. He thought we were convicted felons. I convinced him we were innocent till proven guilty, rememberig my politicat science training from Prof. Trost. By 6 a.m. we were finally cleared and told to leave town. But our problems had only begun. 30 miles up the road we encountered a detour. I went one way, Dan went the wrong way. tAt least that is how 1 saw 1M As a result: Stopping place tDam: Clinton, llI Stopping place tMet: Springfield, Ill Day 22. No sleep. Midnight biking. 100 miles by 6 am. Ticketed for freeway biking. Didn't let it bother us. 200 miles by 3 pm. Valparaiso by 4 pm. t212 milesy Local pictures for paper at 5 pm. Eat at 6 pm. Party 7, 8, and 9 pm. Sleep, days 23, 24, and 25. rm
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