Week Five and Home

West 2013 - WEEK FIVE.   .... Last steps before heading home.
Day 29 - Monday - 7.22.13 ....... to the Dust Bowl and beyond
Across Texas..Oklahoma..Kansas..and into Missouri..!  Up at 6 and riding at 7.. North thru the Texas panhandle and 68 miles into the Oklahoma panhandle.   Guymon and Boise City are the principal cities/towns from which the Dust Bowl emanated. Boise City is quite dumpy with the local county court house as the middle of town. As I searched the town for the advertised museum I hit one of their storm water swells and dumped my phone, cracking the whole glass face - tho it worked ok thereafter. Then I took Hwy# 64 60 miles to Guymon, a much more prosperous location, but not a place I would like to live without 50000 acres of land. The soil in the OK panhandle is sandy and rocky with none of the humus soil found in SD. The land, for the major part, was much more level and flatter than SD.  Then I continued for a ways before I put in home and started driving. I turned NE on 54 to Wichita, KS where I caught I 35 north and 335 toll to Kansas City(s). Then around to the north and the HIexp in Liberty where it was 97 degrees upon arrival. 604 miles in 8.5 hours and a total of 9979 total. 475 miles home tomorrow, the 30th day.... 1145 miles in the last two days from Austin to KC.

Day 30 - Tuesday - 7.23.13.   ..HOME HOME HOME
448 miles in 6.25 hours home thru Missouri, Iowa and Wisconsin and 1052 miles in the last two days.. Thru 20 states - wi, mn, sd, co, wy, id, mt, Alberta, British Columbia, wa, or, ca, nv, ut, nm, tx, ok, ks, mo, and ia. Cool today, first under the cold front moving south and then behind the front in bright sunny coolness. Picked up two new chin strap hooks at J&P. Home by 2:30 to empty bike for equipment storage and wash. The new garage was waiting for me.

DATA.          Total.       Per day.      Per unit

OVERALL        $4156.44     For 30 days / $138.55 per day
W/out service   $3340        $111.33/day
MILES GPS      10444        348/day, did not ride 5 days, 417 miles
MILES odom     10989        Going to dinner, for gas, etc.
FUEL             $ 991.71     $33.06      46.44 miles, average MPG
ROOM            $1775.72    $71.02
BOARD           $ 423.58     $16.38
TRAVEL          $ 835.00     Including $816 service- Austin Lone Star
MISC             $ 130.43     Tolls, etc.