Kansas City, Missouri --> Bourquin´s RV park, Colby, Kansas state

August 05, 2004

	We checked out of our hotel and decided that with no cash we could not buy a truck. We would just have to chance it and hope that the bus would make it with a burnt valve all the way back to Seattle.
	We knew from our trip over that there where a lot of mountains between us and our destination, and the bus certainly would not make it back over some of the passes we had taken. We decided our best bet would be the interstates since these cross on the lowest passes possible. We headed out to I-70 and went as fast as the poor bus would go (45 - 55 mph). Even with severe mechanical troubles we covered more distance than we had on any previous day.
	Things were going almost too well after yesterday, but then we got a flat tire. Fortunately we noticed while we were in a rest area so we didn't have to change it on the side of the freeway. There was some trouble getting the jack into it's connection for this tire as some previous individual had decided it would be a good idea to screw a ground wire exactly in a position that would block the jack point. The ground wire was no longer needed so presumably the same individual simply clipped the wire and left the screw in place to rust and create headaches for anybody that might want to actually use the jack point for it's intended purpose. Anyway a little banging and wrenching got it out and we changed the tire.
	We drove until dark and stayed at an RV park. We made it over half way across Kansas, but it was a terrible way to travel.