Day 36 - July 13 - Champaign, IL to Crawfordsville, IN - 80 miles

Another day of corn and soybeans, and another state.

Nice day, nice weather, nice ride, but I wasn't actually there for it.

Kansas: corn, wheat, no hills.
Illinois: corn, soybeans, no hills.
Indiana: see Illinois.

The big excitement was getting things thrown at us from passing cars. This hasn't happened to us in 2600 miles across the US, but it happened as soon as we crossed into Indiana. Someone threw a plastic bottle at Dan, hit him in the face, and knocked him off his bike. Someone took the orange cone that marks the unmanned water stop, and threw it at Andy, hitting him in the arm. These guys obviously have some practice at throwing things out of car windows. Someone threw a newspaper at Brantley, but missed. Welcome to Indiana. (In fairness, all of these events were in the town of Hillsboro, and at least two of them seemed to involve the same perpetrators.)