Bloomington, IN

Today was a great day. We only rode 40 miles, so we had a lot of down time. We stayed in Columbus, IN, last night, which has a lot of great modern architecture and art, including some Dale Chihuly at the visitors' center. I spent the morning on a quick tour led by Lee before heading out around 9 or 9:30. I rode with Sonya at a nice relaxed pace, as we are both tired after pushing pretty hard for 90 miles yesterday. Our lunch stop was in a tiny town called Nashville, where I had the most delicious steak sandwich ever made. Nashville is a really interesting art community with tons of craft shops. After exploring for a couple hours, Sonya, Beau, Eli, Will, and I started the last leg of the trip into Bloomington. When we got to the Indiana University campus, Sonya and I ran into Tony, and we took a detour to a fountain that was too inviting to pass by on such a hot day. I am exhausted today, I think the lack of sleep is catching up with me. So I spent a large part of the afternoon in a reclining chair watching movies, a luxury we rarely get to enjoy.

Cincinnati was a cool city. Saturday was a build day, so we had two nights there. On Friday a group of us went to the Reds/Braves game which was a lot of fun. And it was followed by the most incredible fireworks show I've ever seen. Our build day involved taking down a ton of scaffolding in the morning and putting up insulation in the afternoon. It felt like a pretty productive day. The 90 mile ride from Cincinnati to Columbus on Sunday was surprisingly good, despite the strong winds. I got to try pace lining some in the afternoon, but I never rode at the front of the line. I was kind of hanging on to the tail end of the group.. gotta work on that.