Day 36

Indianapolis, IN to Richmond, IN -- 84 miles Today's weather was just perfect. The rain from the day before had blown through and the day was clear and beautiful. We even saw a flag just hanging from a flagpole -- no wind! I almost stopped and took a picture of it because it's something we've never seen before on this trip. I rode with five or six men all day long. We started a pace line about 5 miles outside of Indianapolis and we just stayed together the whole day. It was nice to have a leisurely ride and make good time for a change. We had a lunch stop -- something I'm not used to doing -- in a cute town called Centerville, about 10 miles from our destination of Richmond. We took the last 10 miles pretty easy since we had just eaten. Richmond is a really nice town. The group of us that was riding together today are all Catholic and we have been going to Mass together every Saturday afternoon i n whatever town we're in on that day. Our taxi drive said the people of Richmond either work in "plastics or caskets!" I thought that was pretty funny. Today and the next 4 days will be very long, tough days. We have 104 miles to ride today into Ohio, then 98 tomorrow, 94 the next day, and so on and so forth. We have less than 1,000 miles to go to Boston. I'm ready for this to be over now! We're beginning week 6 today...getting time to go home -- my new home!