Day 53
Simple ride to and from work Car-pooled with co-workers to Indy Met for mentorship program.
Day 54
No work Friday! Road to Circle to post attendance and grab a cafe. By 9:30 I was beginning to cover the 70 miles to Turkey Run.
Happenings
1) The stretch of the Cultural Trail from Meridian to the Canal is probably the sketchiest portion of the trail. I rode past an argument between and man and a woman who was passing out hot dog breakfasts to hungry homeless.
"She ain't family," said the man in reference to giving a white woman a hot dog.
"She has nothing, just like the rest of us. That makes us family."
The woman's response of one-ness stuck with me for several miles.
2) Shortly after I was almost flattened by a combination of SUV, city bus, ambulance.
3) Two dogs gave brief chase once I got into the country. One got close!
4) The last third of the trip was all gravel, mud, and rock. This was not ideal.
5) Built in 1856, I rode across the Portland Mills Covered Bridge. At this point a local kid on a dirt bike stopped to chat.
"Nice wheelies," I complimented.
"Thanks, I've been practicing."
"Do you know how to get to Sugar Valley Canoes?" I inquired.
"You're a long way off." (though I was only 5 miles away)
"Well I'm coming from Indy."
"You ride that thing from Indy?!"
He went on to give me shit directions, but I knew where I was going any way. Court picked me up at Highway 47 to save me a dangerous last 3 miles.
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| Tony taking a rest from the gravel roads. |
Brilliant hiking today (see photos below). Rode around loop of camp sites and then later down a large hill to the Coxford Covered Bridge. The gravel roadway made for a careful climb back to the camp site.
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| Muddy walls, trail 3 Turkey Run. photo by Kayla Dwelle |
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| Heavenly light, trail 3 Turkey Run. photo by Kayla Dwelle |
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