Well, the past two days have been busy and fun. We started out yesterday at Joey's Main Street Cafe yesterday. We had eaten there the night before, and it was a good breakfast. Yesterday was a really short ride (it was suppose to be 62 miles but ended up being 72) so I was in no hurry to get into Indianapolis, especially knowing we didn't have to ride today.
Our route took us through a lot of little towns, Mace, New Ross, Jamestown, Lizton, and Pittsboro. Between all of these towns of course were more corn fields, soybean fields, and farm houses. After a quick snack at the sag stop, we went into Brownsburg, and on the way out of this town, we stopped by for a tour of the Roark Bike factory. This company makes custom made bikes that are made of titanium. It was pretty interesting to see, and hear how they got started...(a few bikers at the titanium factory decided to make a bike...by word of mouth others wanted them to make one too...and now they only make custom made bikes for people). I believe they have a website..I think it is www.roarkcycles.com
I took a wrong turn, and saw a minor car accident (a huge truck was going down one lane...but due to construction...the road was not that wide, so the truck side swept the car waiting at the stop light in the other lane). The car was hurt more than were the persons involved. I got back on the correct route, only to get off the route again (again due to more construction). Once backtracking, and going through some nice neighborhoods, I finally made it to the entrance of Eagle Creek Park. -- A park, that is like the mountains without the mountains. Norb and I decided to get our 3 dollars worth, and bike through the park. We biked down to the marina, and sat by the water doing nothing but enjoying the sun. We also ran into Brian, another biker here, and we all just hung out by the water for nearly an hour. It was beautiful out, and was a great way to enjoy the start of the afternoon. We then went and checked out what they call a beach here. It looked pretty much the way that the marina looked, except it had a slide for kids to slide down into the water...and it was fenced off.
Once we entered out of the park, it was constant turning left and right - just as the day before had been. Taking these turns though led us to the entrance into the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. We went in, and took a bus tour on the track. It was fun to see, and to see the red brick finishing line.
We ate lunch there, and moved on. We took more left and right turns which took us to the Lake Sullivan Sports Complex. Here we rode on the Major Taylor Velodrome. My time wasn't superfast, but I did have fun riding it! It would have taken me a lot more time and practice for me to get up to a fast speed. Here is one of the pics of me riding on it.
When we left the Velodrome, we took a few more turns which led us on a nice bike path throughout downtown Indianapolis. We rode along the white river, and passed a golf course. The bike path took us right into the center of town. We passed by the NCAA hall of champions, and found a starbucks too!!! (I think I was more excited about finding the starbucks!)....Indianapolis is really, to my surprise, a nice little city. It reminds me a lot of Denver, and the center of the city, is in a circle- very much how columbus circle is set up in NYC.
When we finally made it to our hotel yesterday, we had some drinks and appetizers(Korean food provided by Zero- and some of his friends). We had a voucher to go eat at the Olde Spaghetti Factory, but some of us -- Norb, Leigh, Sean, Tom, Jack, Brian, and I decided to go instead to Ruth's Chris Steak House. The food and drinks were amazing after having eaten buffet food for over a month!!! It was quite a night!
Today- Day 38 --Rest day, has been wonderful! I slept in until 8 am! What a treat that was! I was out the door by 10, and of course went up to town to have my starbucks by 11. I just hung out in the city today, did some errands, and ate lunch. Here they have a Rock Bottom Brewery --I haven't been there since living in Denver, so Norb and I had lunch there today. Just blogging now. In about an hour, we are all going over to Jay's for dinner. Jay was one of the bikers in the beginning, who completed his tour across america when he finished his last segment from San Francisco to Salt Lake City last month. He has been gracious enough to open up his home to all of us and have a barbeque at his place so we can all catch up with him and tell him the stories/experiences we've all had since he's left.
I honestly have no idea where we are going to go tomorrow. I hear it is suppose to be rainy tomorrow....and I also heard it will be a long day -- I think over 100 miles tomorrow. That's all I've got for now! Talk with you all later! Meiri.
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