An easy day today, only 50 miles to Sterling. I can afford an extra hour lie in and still reach Sterling by 10.30. I was surprised yesterday to see that Holyoke sits at over 3,700ft. Thats over 700ft higher than the highest point I crossed in Pennsylvania. 17 miles down the road at Haxton the elevation is over 4,000ft.
This morning each of the towns I pass has its own processing plant. Land alternates between grassland and Crops. Gradually the crops petered out and then disapeared altogether. The landscape changed abruptly to grassy scrubland. It looked untouched, poor and barren. This must have been how it looked before the settlers came. That made me think wow I really am looking over a landscape as it was when the Plains indians roamed the land. From the tiny village of Fleming down to Sterling I spent the time looking around going Wow!! I got to Sterling just after 10.30.
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