Sterling, Kansas, to Newton, Kansas -- 61 miles

We woke at 5 am, and started biking at 6 am. We stopped in the town of Nickerson at Hendrick’s Exotic Animal Farm for about an hour. The donkeys were biting each other and fighting over who was getting fed; one drew blood on the other’s nostril. We saw the strangest-looking bulls, with a rounded hump on their back, a frilly flap of skin on their chest, and long floppy ears; it turns out they were Brahma bulls from India. Lorraine fed grass to the camels, zebras, giraffes, and gazelles. We especially liked the gentle giraffe – he would slowly lower his head and then scoop up the grass with his long tongue.

When we started biking again, the wind was gusting from the southeast at 10 mph. We stopped at 11 am to eat lunch under a tree by the road. It had been relatively cool, but started getting warmer. We stopped at the Hesston Chiropractic Center to drop off a brochure. We arrived in Newton at 1:30 pm and checked into the First Interstate Motel, then ate at the diner next door. We called Curtis Horton (a chiropractor in Springfield, MO, and fellow member of the Sherman College Board of Trustees) and made arrangements to meet on Sunday. He would pick us up in Walnut Grove, Missouri at around 3 pm, and we would call on Saturday to confirm.