Woooooh! a little more frequency! this is more like it, but unfortunately not all of it is news I would like to have. First we have been hitting a lot of rain, a little odd for Kansas right? Well normally the entire state is in a season of draught at the moment, with low humidity and high heat. Well it is almost completely opposite at the moment! the humidity is up between 60 and 80% the temperature is floating around 90 degrees and it has rained every day for about a week. Because of this there has been high water and the occasional flood. For example this is the town of Hutchinson we had just stayed in a few nights ago:

That's some pretty high water, luckily we missed it! But not long after we did come across a flooded road and ended up having to walk our bikes across it. Our friend Fabien however decided to take a different route, he loaded his trailer in a passing truck and rode straight across! great times. That night we set up camp in the Chanute city park a nice little place with showers and everything. What was not nice was the storm that came that night. at points the wall of my tent was touching me in the face and all I could do was put the miserably hot sleeping bag over my head and wait for it to end. Well, that and try to take a video. The next morning I woke up floating atop a lake as if someone had played a classic camp prank of throwing my sleeping pad in as a boat. Then floating along next to me was my journal. Okay, maybe it wasn't thaaat bad but there was water everywhere and I lost quite a lot of writing. But tomorrow we leave Kansas and get moving in some new, and very hilly, territory!

that pink pen didn't survive but the black did!

a walk across the pond

humming birds are really hard to get pictures of

there's a field in there somewhere

Kansas! 

many churches open their doors to us, and the fridge!

the rubber bands keep it a little more secure on the feet