Daniel Kalal
Cruisin' Guzzisti
Friend, Nebraska is southwest of Lincoln. Other than the interesting name, there was no particular reason to ride there.
Kansas
It's often helpful to pre-stage a Sunday ride by putting down a few miles Saturday evening. This is Salina, Kansas.
I had dinner at the local truck stop.
Nebraska
The whole day was nearly perfect for a ride. The south wind was sometimes strong, but that's to be expected this time of year.
US-6 runs from California to Rhode Island.
Friend, Nebraska. As is almost always the case, Main Street runs perpendicular to the tracks.
The post office is considerably larger than the police station.
Streets named for common eastern trees run parallel to Main Street. Numbered streets run parallel to the railroad tracks, starting with 1st Street (which is adjacent to the tracks). This probably holds true for the majority of towns in the central plains states.
The Friend public school.
The local market was open. I needed something to drink.
Just a few miles north of Friend is the town of Beaver Crossing
Nebraska-15 probably is never very busy.
The sign out on the highway said that the town of Western had all the services a traveler would need--including a cafe. The sign was very old.
Western, Nebraska.
Kansas
Washington, Kansas is just south of the Nebraska border. No cafe here, either...
It's often helpful to pre-stage a Sunday ride by putting down a few miles Saturday evening. This is Salina, Kansas.
I had dinner at the local truck stop.
The whole day was nearly perfect for a ride. The south wind was sometimes strong, but that's to be expected this time of year.
US-6 runs from California to Rhode Island.
Friend, Nebraska. As is almost always the case, Main Street runs perpendicular to the tracks.
The post office is considerably larger than the police station.
Streets named for common eastern trees run parallel to Main Street. Numbered streets run parallel to the railroad tracks, starting with 1st Street (which is adjacent to the tracks). This probably holds true for the majority of towns in the central plains states.
The Friend public school.
The local market was open. I needed something to drink.
Just a few miles north of Friend is the town of Beaver Crossing
Nebraska-15 probably is never very busy.
The sign out on the highway said that the town of Western had all the services a traveler would need--including a cafe. The sign was very old.
Western, Nebraska.
Washington, Kansas is just south of the Nebraska border. No cafe here, either...