Sa-lide on in to Salida!

While the Royals were sliding into home plate all over the Oakland A's this weekend, we've slid another fifty miles east of the halfway meridian into Salida, home to 45 thousand faithful royals/ barbeque/god-loving Americans!

Salida de emergencia! Spanish for "chase this shrinking B-52 bomber down these very small stairs!" Spanish is hard. So is working for a company that exploits an aging demographic's once-great, artistically rich culture, capitalizing strictly off of nostalgic novelties! And listening to the same three or four Bob Dylan songs on repeat every day, watching graying hipsters faces brighten as they come on, pulling out three hundred not-so-hard-earned dollars for two t-shirts and a pair of shitty jeans that i was forced to trick them into buying.

Dear Reader: please please please try not to become too enraptured with cultural influence to invest your nickels in needless, overpriced things that will not help you to become better people in any way. Please go to baseball games, pursue realer happinesses, and make yourself useful through art. As you age, you will have access to a more expendable income, and feel an increased desire to compensate for your aging with investments in material "improvements." Do not be fooled by tomorrows actors and models who are currently wearing diapers, their culture will be one that you will be excluded from, regardless. Isn't that awful!?

This is getting a wee bit dark for my tastes, considering life is a fist of lollipops, but i just wanted to make it clear that my job isn't, like, good. And you shouldn't feel alone if your job isn't, like, good too. You should probably be working toward a freelance career, or joining the ranks of the majority, ignoring international politics and numbing yourself through substance abuse! More on Salina soon! yeah!! go rockets into outer space!!

Week's Distance: 43.91 miles

Total Distance Covered: 1351.34 miles

Salina, Kansas