Sometime during the night the truck traffic abated. Found out why after I started: Highway 2 was closed due to flooding. Learned of another route to get me to Warsaw.
Amount o standing water diminished as I went East. Drove what would have been Blue lines.
Worked around Warsaw and developed area around Winona lake to TH. Trail is on former Chicago Boys Club property. Deep deciduous forest again. Big oak cast deep shadows. Wonderful trail system. Again the locals have done a good job with what they have. Rode the loop 2x. A bit of turning and twisting. Hard tail would get the ride done. Not many places to relax. My hands sometimes lost feeling because of hard pull on the grips and pulling the brakes.
TH is asphalt under oak trees. Cars pulling in smashed acorns that sounded like driving on fresh gravel.
Met Karen @ TH and she gave me trail info. The trails will host a DINO 24 hr next weekend. We talked about trails etc. She is active in local club responsible for the trails. I asked her where I might find a shower later. She gave up the LBS: Trailhouse. She even contacted them to grease the way for me.
Spoke with Rob there about methods to mark their trails and he shared some MI rides for me on my way North.
Enjoyed shower. Did laundry, hit big grocery store, & headed North.
Land of Goshen. Wasn’t that said in 1 of the Firesign albums? Part of Rt 15 closed because of high water.
Made Bristol at dark. Found spot off main drag near a horse trailer place and railroad track. Its quiet.
Pleasant trail:
Lost caption.
trails ran on either side of clear cool running stream.
Deep shaded woods presents its own pictures:
Throw this one in for you who have not seen the inside of my Sprinter during living conditions. What with my clean bikes clothes drying in the rear.
Have several small patches of poison ivy on my legs and a hive type rash on inside of my right elbow. I’ll take poison ivy over poison oak any day.
Lots of farm land again: corn & soy beans. Wonder if crop will make a good harvest as ground is saturated for equipment & if crops will mature. Saw several irrigation pipes in fields. Farmers are probably trying to get irrigation farmers to pull water from their fields.
Lots of truck traffic since like Jamestown, ND.