Day 37 – 8/5 – Wehrspann Lake to Eagle, NE – 35 miles
This was the fourth straight day with extreme heat and the worst of the bunch, breaking triple digits. It’s definitely been wearing me down, similar to the stretch through canal country in Illinois. One or two days of high heat, no problem. The cumulative impact of it, though, is more exhausting than the sum of […]
Day 36 – 8/4 – Omaha to Wehrspann Lake, NE – 16 miles
Five days later, the carnage is everywhere. After a night spent tossing and turning in my sweltering attic, I abandoned the powerless Airbnb and my plans for a day off in Omaha, pushing out of the city and back into the bliss of air conditioning. Any initial, selfish thoughts–I really wanted to visit the Joslyn […]