Fighting the Winds Into Oklahoma

This morning was cool, overcast and foggy when we left Dalhart, Texas. After five miles the fog burned off and the skies remained overcast for the next 30 miles or so. The nice berm continued. We saw the first fields of corn and wheat, lots of irrigation and some oil wells today. The picture of the cowboy was taken in Texas.

There was a threat of thunderstorms most of the morning but the skies became mostly sunny as we entered Oklahoma. The last half of the 74 miles, the light headwind turned into a much stronger headwind. After pedaling 350+ miles the last four days we just toughed it out the last 30 miles or so.

We left our phone charger in a motel somewhere. We looked through about 30 chargers that were left by other guests at our motel but none of them fit our phone. So we needed to ride to a store to buy a phone charger. Mel and Lorene, our friends in Santa Fe, happened to be going through Guymon to attend a funeral in Turpin and stopped briefly to see us this afternoon.

At the motel we talked to some of the Storm Chasers (Weather Channel) staff who are also guests. They had been chasing a tornado in Colorado last evening. They said the worst of the thundestorms are moving north. That should be in our favor.

To our surprise, our motel room has a nice jacuzzi which we will use after dinner. What a welcome surprise!