drama in hays, kansas

so we were driving through kansas-lots of fields and not many towns along I70. as we are getting to an exit for hays, kansas the car starts to make a funny noise. flat tire. we took the exit and there was a gas station right there. norton changed the tire but the spare was a little donut tire and we still had about an hour and a half to go before our destination for the night. it's around 4pm on a sunday. but there's a superwalmart right across the street from us so we head over there to get a new tire. everyone with 2 or more kids has a honda odyssey, right? there should be an abundance of tires available for such a popular van, right? wrong. apparently the 2008 odyssey has a new size tire and there was not one available in the entire town! the only honda dealer was about 2 hours away, going the opposite direction. guess where the closest place to get a tire was? denver. great. but how do we get there?? if we weren't so tired it might have seemed funny. anyway, we finally got a number for a mechanic who had a used tire that was similar enough in size to get us to denver. so we stayed in hays for the night and got the new tire the next morning.