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It was some 115 km / 72 mi from Burden to Independence on Day 6. We had a sponsored lunch in Longton, passed through Elk Falls, home of the outhouse festival, and entered corn country.

You can view this ride in detail at Garmin Connect, Strava, or at Ride With GPS.

Each thumbnail below links to a much larger image of about 3.5 MB in size.



 
At left, the Cowley County Central Raider.
 
At left and above, my morning tire pressure check.
 


 
Harvest is underway.
 

 

More wind farms; glad that someone enjoys these blows!
 

 

 


 
SAG near Grenola.
 
Harvest the old-fashioned way.
 

Couldn't resist this phot-op in Moline.
 
T-33 Shooting Star trainer in Moline; we had a SAG here in a previous year.
 

 


 
Elk Falls is rich in historical sites.
 
Yours Truly in front of the Prudence Crandall marker.
 


 
Downtown Elk Falls, "the largest living ghost town".
 
Below, examples from the Elk Falls outhouse festival.
 


 

 

 

Lunch at this church in Longton.
 

 
Unlike the drought-stunted wheat, this tall, irrigated corn is tasseling early.
 

SAG at a gas station outside of Elk City.
 

 

 

US Bike Route 55 at Elk City.
 

 

 

Go Bulldogs!
 

 
Creepy watcher in the stands.
 


 
"Celebrate Independence and its Diversity"
 
Memorial Hall
 


 

 

 


 
Downtown street art.
 

 

Make your own smoothies!
 
Spaghetti dinner at the Sporting Heritage Center.
 

 


 

 

 


 
They saw us coming!
 		  

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