Day 24: Wichita, KS

houston, the duck has landed in kansas over. operation bravo underwent various transitions and will complete maneuvers by tomorrow. to achieve capture with the u-haulian vessel rolling nest, the duck had to journey 15 miles north to bonne terre (meaning good land in french). once we had capture, rolling nest traversed much of the planned route through the ozark mountains. just before noon, rolling nest stopped to assess elemental road conditions where hand held instrumentation recorded 106.5 degrees. obviously these readings would put wounded duck straight into the oven and onto the dinner table. continuing on, rolling nest was successful in entering ft. leonard wood's atmosphere and landing on the front steps of my former home during boot camp. while reminiscing about my youthful experiences of yester year, two buses rolled up on my six filled with a sorry lot of trainees whom, according to a most amiable brown hat (drill seargent), had just wrapped up a twelve mile hump... memories. after wrapping with the guy for a few minutes, and being glad for once on this journey through the southern furnace that is america that i was in my own shoes, rolling nest left the army base in its side view mirror and found refuge in springfield, missouri.

today, rolling nest continued onto pittsburg, kansas to pass operational control to another vessel: enterprise 1. after successful capture of the new craft where instrumentation was reading 104 degrees at high noon, enterprise 1 left the worthy rolling nest and pittsburg in the rearview mirror and continued west. as the duck continued to traverse the kansas plains, temps continued to rise, finally finding hard dock in wichita, kansas at motel six where fortunately they left the light on for my approach. currently the duck is cooling his heals in anticipation of linking back up with the planned route tomorrow. according to the weather gurus, the heat streak should be snapping soon and we'll be back in business. duck out, over.