Hurry up and wait

Nothing ever goes perfectly well. I noticed last night when I was working on the bike that the rear wheel had a wobble. This usually means that the hub is kaput. Luckily, the only bike shop on the route for the entire state of Kansas was 35 miles away. So now I have a couple hours to kill waiting for the shop to open and then for them to fix White Lightnin.

I contemplated pushing on to Pueblo, CO before I had it fixed but the last thing I wanted was to be in the middle of Kansas without a working rear wheel. I suppose I could have purchased a small tractor wheel and used that. Something tells me that a couple of hours spent in Pittsburgh, KS could save me a couple of days on the plains waiting for FedEx to deliver a new wheel, or hitchhiking to a town with a bike shop, or whittlin' a new hub out of a fence post.
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