Wed: April 20: El Dorado to Yates Corners - 68 mi, 5hrs

It always looks like rain in the morning and then it clears up. One of these days it going to look like rain and then pour. I'm sure of that.

El Dorado is the home of the Kansas Oil Museum and there are plenty of pumps still pumping oil from 2000+ feet.

Met Ted Noble at small convenience store halfway between Eureka and Yates Corners. He is my age and is planning to ride to Washington state in June. Apparently, a lot of bicyclists use this Rte 54 I'm on. His daughter, who runs the store, has a book riders sign.

Passed the halfway point according to the "Race Across America" directions I'm using.

What I can understand:

a) Why horse thieves were treated so harshly in the west in the 1800's. If you didn't have a horse, you were going nowhere.

b) Why people used to worship the god of the wind.

What I cannot understand:

a) Why there are no windmills in Kansas generating electricty.

b) Why I have seen no solar water heaters anywhere on my trip so far.