Ed and Monica treated us to a feast of melon, bacon, coffee cake, eggs and potatoes with coffee which got us out on the road in good spirits. We said our goodbyes to Zach, Cameron and Jeff after challenging them to a race to Detroit.
Today was fairly uneventful. We passed through a few different communities varying from the opulent suburbs with lakes and manicured gardens to the more deprived. For the most part though we were cycling through agricultural land with corn towering above us on both sides. Curious, we walked a little way into the corn and could see how people get lost as you could only see a metre or two through the maize (sorry, I had to make the pun...). A pleasant surprise was a stretch of mint fields, with a refreshing cool breeze carrying the scent with us.
It was a long day remembering groups of three road names at a time which were when we would turn off the road we were on; Precious few paved cycle routes broke the monotony. Using my phone to navigate, there was a lot of cycling one handed, looking at the phone in the other. This has been okay so far, but after a close call with a parked car I invested in a handlebar phone mount to navigate with.
Losing an hour as we moved across the time zone into Eastern Time meant we had a later finish in order to cover the distance. We pulled into a KOA site North of Notre Dame University in Granger, next to the Indiana/ Michigan border. At $49 for one pitch, it was by far the most expensive site we have stayed in so far. We will avoid in future.
Tomorrow we will move into Michigan, with less than 200 miles to Detroit, and under 1000 to New York.
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