Day 23: Little League in Eureka

Today we woke up in Hesston around 6:15 and although we were very tired we were awakened by  a great breakfast of homemade waffles made by Faith.  The apple butter and homemade applesauce was an added treat to the already delicious waffles.  After getting packed up we headed through downtown Hesston on our journey towards El Dorado where we planned to eat lunch.  Once again the morning was filled with strong headwinds but we forged on until we hit 126 where we made a left and thus moved the winds to our side.  The western Kansas landscape has begun to remind us a lot more of home with trees, fields, and more gently rolling hills.  Steve entertained us by asking us agricultural trivia and ag terminology for most of the morning.  We made it to El Dorado a little after one where we pulled into a Burger King with the intent of eating our own packed meals, to make it less wrong we bought milkshakes and checked with the manager and he seemed to be ok with it.  After traveling through the town we later noticed and amazing park and Kansas oil museum and regretted we had chosen Burger King as the to eat our lunch.  Upon leaving El Dorado we began to catch our first break in a couple of days, as the wind shifted slightly to our backs.  So we flew the last thirty miles to Eureka and we were all glad to again experience fast riding and the opportunity legitimately go downhill again.  We arrived in Eureka around 5 oclock and happened to knock the door of Rob and Tammy a couple who was happy to help us out.  Before we knew it Rob began grilling us steak and had cooked us up an amazing dinner of Mac  and cheese and biscuits.  Rob used to be a social studies teacher but now works as the principle the local elementary school and Tammy is also an elementary teacher so Rob had some advice for Lyle’s future in the educational world.  After dinner we headed over to watch their son’s little league baseball game and had a blast cheering  for the Eureka Tornadoes!  Christian actually had a pivotal hit that tied the game up in the last inning.  We returned from the baseball game and passed the evening watching the NBA finals and figuring out our route for tomorrow.  We are continually surprised by the amazing blessings that we have received as each day continues to provide more and more evidence of God’s provision on our trip.
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