Making our way through Kansas

We spend a week in Kansas. Great Bend is our home for tonight. The city is named for a big bend in the Arkansas River which originates in Colorado. Although I can see evidence of the river in the never-ending line of cottonwood trees as we pedal along, I have never seen the river. A local told me today that the river is frequently dry in Kansas as Colorado frequently takes all the water. He blamed the cantaloupe farmers in SE Colorado. I did see a dry riverbed entering Dodge City yesterday thinking it could not possibly be the Arkansas. I picture how full it is in our mountains and what a draw it is for white-water rafting.

A peloton of CrossRoads riders: