Bonny Lake to Kanopolis

This day started with a quick pack-up and a walk to the edge of Bonny Lake.

The water was a bit low here, this is normally the boat ramp, but it is now about a half mile from the actual water.

We had a good grand-slam type breakfast at the local VFW helicopter restaurant.

The tip of some of the trim on the car had come loose a few years ago, and had I glued it back on with a hot-glue gun. This worked fine in our cool coastal climate, but it was no match for the desert. So the tip came loose, and added to the road noise. This required some temporary surgery using the duct tape/WD-40 principle (if it moves and it shouldn't, fix it with duct tape. If it should move and doesn't fix it with WD-40).
Speaking of road noise, some of the pavement in Colorado and Kansas causes an extremely annoying whine or whistling sound when you drive on it. It's like a single note on a flute played continuously. This road noise significantly increases driving fatigue. I've never experienced this before, and a little research shows that the road engineers are aware of how annoying it is.

Texturing of roadway pavement surfaces is necessary to provide adequate resistance to skidding, and to allow water to escape from under tires to minimize hydroplaning. This texturing, however, has been shown to contribute to tire noise on rigid pavements. Large aggregate mixes have also been shown to increase tire noise. Studies have been conducted by other agencies to evaluate which textures provide the needed safety attributes, while reducing the noise levels or the pure tone frequencies or “whine” that are annoying to the public.

I'm surprised anyone can accept it. The only advantage of this noise is it feels so good when you finally get to a non-noisy part of the highway.

Anyway, the problem wasn't present on this dirt road that Gunilla chose for us today.

Dinner was a pre-packaged salad -- quite good. At home it's cheaper to make this kind of stuff ourselves, but on the road one doesn't have all it was raw ingredients, so it's cheaper to buy the package.

After dinner I had a flat-tire clinic, patching the two spares and the two new "garage" flats (flats that don't happen until after the ride).

More views of the campsite:


The tires weren't the only thing getting flats. When we went to bed it seemed that the airbed was a little softer than usual, and sure enough, at midnight we were hitting bottom. We reinflated it, and were comfortable enough until morning.