day #4 - state #7 to 9!

started in Salinas, Kansas,

a wonderful place, 33 bucks for a single with wifi! (and very nice decor!)

then on this morning to Marquette, to 'kansas motorcycle museum'.

(I dont have a pic of the front, it's in dad's camera)

but first breakfast, with old people
(the only people up that early on main street):

then the museum when it opened.

this guys name is stan engidehl (or so) and he's an old flat track
racer from so far back, I couldn't tell ya. He's a harley guy,
tried and true (but when I say that, I mean racer, not hells angel!)

some wonderful old indians.

A harley ice racer (old as hell)

I'm going to stop talking about these bikes,
cuz I don't know what era they are.

This bike (sans the triumph sticker) is the same one as my first bike!

and here we have my last race bike, a '74 can-am mx1.

this is, stan sez, the first motorcycle dyno made.
by him, out of a tractor dyno.

harley sprint.

lots of dirt bikes, with old crusers (and some with motors)
hanging from the roof.

the story behind this bike was amazing.
it was a bike built from scratch from the machinests on uss saratoga,
a ww2 airplane carrier. stan told us how each part of it was made,
and what they used to make it.

some pictures of stan racing against modern flattrack bikes,
on his old '40s harley (I think). I'm not sure but
I think he said he was in his mid 60's when he did this race.

also, the bottom picture is of 2 guys in the same race
bailing in a lake/mudhole.

a russian bike.

yamaha gator, of which neither of us had ever seen or even heard about.

next door was a little shop full of old gas station signs and stuff!

my battery died when I was taking pictures in here.
I didn't go back to get pictures of the 'chicken poop' chapstick he
was selling there!
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and a block down, was a british bike museum...but it was closed today
so we just took some pictures of me goofing around.

we found the reason that buick is NOT ever going to be killed off!!!

The mid-west!!!

we saw lots of them, both brand new and less then 5 years old!

note where these two were parked in front of. :-)

another museum!

then down the highway, we ran upon this place!
it wasn't on our list.

kansas auto racing museum

I could write lots about this place, but it's after midnight
and we're getting up and rolling at 6am, to hit more museums
in Iowa tomorrow.

we were there for hours, the owner had so many stories to tell,
just like stan at the motorcycle museum.
my dad likes to talk even more then me!!! :-)

a few last pictures for today!!!

Missouri is kind of messed up, mainly because they have
mile markers every 2/10 of a mile!!!

This was some wierd thing for the truck scales, but I cant
member what the deal was.

had to snap a pickture of this mile marker.


this was a county road!
you know who i was thinking about!
:-D


last but not least, a crazy casino sign in iowa.

now we're in a motel 6 outside of de moins iowa.
snagging wifi from the Bosselman truck stop next door.

while driving thru the truck stop, I learned a new bit of
trucker speak!!

LOT LIZARD

the hookers/skanks that hang out around truckstops

we saw one walking between the motel and the lot behind
the truck stop where all the trucks are parked.

now you know it to, if you didn't!

until tomorrow!

(and I'm sorry if there are any typos or other
nastyness...I have to go to sleep now!)