day 25

23 June 2008



Today's ride went smoothly. We reached our planned stop early, so we decided to ride further. We rode to La Crosse, which was a few miles off the route, but had a nice park to stay at. We rode 92 miles.

La Crosse also claims to be the barbed wire capitol of the world! They have a barbed wire museum which has, among other things, rows and rows of display cases showing hundreds of different types of barbed wire that have been invented.

Next to the barbed wire museum was the Post Rock Museum. When Kansas was first being settled, there were not enough trees around to make fence posts out of, so they dug down to the rock layer (limestone, I think), and made fence posts out of stone. We actually saw quite a few fences along the ride today with rock fence posts. I thought that was very interesting.

Tonight, for the first time on the trip, we saw fireflies. There were hundreds out over the grass in the park. The kids have never seen fireflies before, so they really loved it. And Dallin caught a toad.