The morning started out with another legendary feast courtesy of the Bobby Filet rival himself; John Garrity. Setting up a breakfast bonanza at his office, we rolled in a little before 7 am and got to taste once again the skill that resides in John’s cooking ability. While there, the rest of the staff joined in and soon had us all laughing like school kids. Though, sad to say, I did find myself the butt of the jokes. (Yes, pun intended.)
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After waving good bye to John and his great group of coworkers, we pit stopped at Starbucks for some nectar of the morning gods, and then were soon strapped on the bikes for another adventure on rims. Our goal for today: head east. Head east young man, head east.
I followed that single minded goal most of the day, and by doing so left yet another pedal pounded state behind and discovered that I was skimming along the roads of Indiana. My first taste of the home of the Hoosiers was rather unpleasant. The oxen path called a road that we were on was littered with fault lines and canon craters. I believe this specific road was used during a civil war skirmish, with cannon aplenty, and to honor the past has been preserved as such. With heavy traffic (though I can’t understand why people would drive it more than once) on this road less road, drafting became too dangerous and Gary and I split up with 100 yards between us as we navigated through the trenches. It was a new-baby-born joyous occasion when that moon blasted track was left behind, and we were on roads that have been maintained since electricity became prevalent.
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Our ride today was a planned 149 leg masher (who planned these days???), but Larry the Logistic was able to stir up some municipal roads that knocked 12 miles off the route. With the 10 extra miles we put in yesterday, this brought down the total distance to a manageable 127 miles. Not bad, all things considered. And even better news awaited us; we are into single digits for days remaining: 9! Wow, 9 days to Atlantic waters and a journey completed. Amazing to consider what the last 24 days have brought me. Life is unfathomable at times.
