Sunday 11 July 2010

Iowa countryside = Americanised Leicestershire

Lots of rolling hills, some trees and a lot less corn fields than Indiana and Illinois. They were incredibly flat with endless cornfields. The only time that is fun to ride is with a tailwind, and that happened for about 20 miles over the two states.

We are staying in Mt.Vernon tonight, and I have just given my bike a good seeing to. Swapped tyres from back to front and vice versa but things are beginning to wear down, brake blocks, tyres etc...

My legs are feeling pretty good, although we had a dodgeball game against a local YMCA team last night which left me with a few bruises from all the dodging.

Got to go to Chicago last day off. There were 4 of us and we had the strangest conversation with a guy on the train. Along the lines of this...

"So we're going to Chicago for the day, where should we go?"
"Well I'll tell you where not to go. Don't go to the ghetto"
"Ok, we weren't planning on it"
"You won't stumble upon it, you'll notice it getting gradually worse"
"Ok, we won't go to the ghetto then"

Very strange guy. But we did meet someone else on the train, DJ Hiko, who navigated us around the station and then gave us 60 dollars in donation.

In other news, good luck Paulo Sousa.

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