Distance: 119 miles Ordway, CO to the Kansas border
Ride Time: 9:36
Average Speed: 12.9
Altitude Gain: 1456
Average Temperature: 93
When we got up this morning, we met Jerry and Peggy sitting on their porch and watching the birds. We said our “good bye’s.” We feel we have some real friends in Jerry and Peggy Davis.
This is still the high prairie. It was a very hot and windy day. It has taken on the atmosphere of grain storage towers at the towns, oil pumps, cattle grazing on the dry natural grass and brush. There were as many ghost towns as there were active towns.
Kathie stopped in Eads and visited with Tom Davis. Tom and his brother Jerry are in business together and they had asked that we stop by his place.
Kathie and I both stopped at the Sand Creek Massacre site where militia members attacked an encampment of Cheyenne and Arapaho killing 230 Indians including women and children. The Indians were flying the American as well as truce flags at the time of the attack. The town that now bears the name of Colonel John Chivington is but a ghost town. It is fitting that the ghost town is what is remembered of Chivington. There were so many horse flies biting us and flying into our eyes that we couldn’t stay there as long as we would have liked.
By the time I got to the Kansas/ Colorado border it was dark and Kathie picked me up for the night. It had been a long day. We stayed the night in Tribune, KS. Earlier Kathie had walked through the town which was playing music over the loud speaker which she enjoyed immensely. The campground was full, so we parked by the Horace Greeley museum for the night.
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