I ducked inside this abandoned barn yesterday evening to escape a storm, and decided to spend the night here as the rains kept on pounding until near sunset.

The shadows were long early this morning.

HELLO I AM HERE.

As soon as I crossed into Indiana, I spotted the first flowering dogwood of the trip.

This is the most abused sign I've seen so far.

You could hear the bubbles popping when a car drove over them.

by Kar's Nuts

That's my favorite type of food!

But I don't think I like it.

Once the longest highway in the country, a title now held by US 20, which my dad and I were on just before we got to 6.

They even have their sign irreverently off center on the pole

riding the rails

I've never seen this before.

This morning a very nice postman named Todd stopped to talk, and he gave me the banana out of his lunchbox. His professional eye noticed the tip of an envelope sticking out of my shirt pocket (Mother's Day is coming up!), and he offered to mail it for me. I tried to take his picture, but my phone didn't store it. Sorry Todd!

Chapter 7!

A good solution to the snow plow problem