Day 25 - July 11

We left the Indian Head Motel and stopped at the only cafe in town for a breakfast. The plan was for me to stay a little longer to shop for food and try to post the blogs by finding an open connection on the street like I did the night before. It is important to note that we had a barbecue of sorts with yesterdays food. Matt plugged in the portable refrigerator backwards and it became a cooker. We checked and he is not color blind, red is red and blue is blue for him so it may have just been a mistake and not an effort to heat the room.

I could not find an open connection and I thought I should not take to long since they were moving east. I was correct they had already gone 10 miles when I caught them. The topology changed a little again. Smaller farms, rolling hills and more livestock. We continued east and found the town of North Manchester. They ate and took a short rest and I found a lot of flowers. They seem to need a break near flowers and bugs.

Indiana busy bee.

Off again and this time I tried to jump out ahead to have time to get food and try and find a barber. I went down about ten miles and turned left on hwy 5. I called and left a message and latter called again. I stopped in Huntington and found an open internet connection and posted their blogs. A barber was open, however he had a rule that his lunch was 11:30 to 12:00 and could not take me at 11:15. I found that this town has interesting buildings and was taking a picture when the phone rang.

Hay, whats up?

Gary said they were at the end of 114 and I knew we were off the plan. We discovered they were just west of Fort Wayne and about 15 miles from me. We looked at the map and were able to start them east as I came north to connect. We picked the end point we had planned for this day and continued to the end with a 109 mile day just south of Payne Ohio. We transported back into Indiana for the night. Bike cleaning, lanudry and a hair cut finished the day.