Day 5: Corn fields have lined the roads for the near 140 miles crossed over the past two days. The tall stalks keep us cozy inside the abandoned back roads so we can ride side by side and get to know each other better, occasionally play the ABC’s game or pass a telephone phrase down the line when the fields get redundant. I’m Strava-ing lately, never done that before but the boys are all about tracking mileage and posting it, but they aren’t allowed to bring phones on the trip so I’m the official tracker now. They only ask me like ten times a day if it’s still recording, and of course I accidentally lost some data because I’m an old millennial, so they say.
Yesterday we biked nearly 70 miles through Mennonite communities, sharing the road with horse-drawn buggies and stopping to play on the simplistic and well-crafted school playground structures, with classic seesaws, tether balls and canvas swing sets. Today we reached Ohio and tossed a frisbee back-and-forth between Indiana and Ohio. One of the Trekkers has had some knee pains and today she hit a wall, we all sort of did somewhere along today’s 65 mile route, but her especially. With ten miles left, she was in a lot of pain and surrendered in a straw field. Just as I met up with her, a guy named Seth pulled up in a truck, his dad owned the field and he was checking to see if we were okay. I asked if he’d give us a ride to the campsite and sent the rest of the group on to meet up at camp. We loaded up and on the way Seth asked if we would like to see some puppies. Never in my life would I turn this down. Turns out, him and his wife breed golden retrievers and we were introduced to a pile of warm, fuzzy puppies and that satisfying bike-touring feeling of finding magic on the road. My Trekker’s knee pain slipped her mind when that cold wet puppy tongue attacked her face with all its healing forces. Tomorrow we hit Toledo and forecast calls for all the rain..
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