This morning we woke to a delicious smelling breakfast. Feeling well rested, we ate probably the best pancakes I've ever had: banana pancakes with chocolate chips and strawberries! After breakfast, I finally figured out a solution to sharing our photos on our website. I was able to download a Picasa App to the tablet which allowed me to upload the photos pretty easily. I am still really behind with uploading photos, since I only have up to day 2 on the site, but now that I have figured out a solution that should work, I should be able to get caught up soon. When we left Elkhart, we had a pretty short ride to South Bend, where we stopped at a local bike shop to get new tires, and a new chain for my bike. After the bikes were ready to go for another 2500 miles, we stopped at the post office to mail a few things we weren't using home to lighten our load a little. We decided to go out to eat at a little diner in town. It was 50s themed with the black and white checkered floor and sparkly vinal booths. We each had a burger and fries, and I had a mint shake too. We decided that we will try to go out to eat once in every state on the tour. After a very tasty lunch, we continued on our way. It rained for a little bit, just enough to get everything wet. There was some thunder and lightning, but we missed most of that. We went down a hill for a while, and then everything was flat, and remained flat for the rest of the day After riding in the sunshine for a while, another storm came through, except we were caught right in the middle of this one. It was pouring and began to hail, which hurt. The wind was so bad I couldn't even hold my bike to the shoulder of the road. It was a pretty busy road, so we decided to turn onto a side road and let the storm pass. While we were standing there in the pouring rain, a nice lady, named Phyllis, yelled out of her back door to come inside. She ended up feeding us cheese bread, crackers, Coke, and homemade chocolate cake. We ended up staying there for about an hour chit chatting. When the storm had passed and it was sunny again, we continued on our way. Shortly after, we passed into a new time zone! There was no sign for it like I was hoping, but our phones automatically set to the new time which was kind of neat. This is the first time I have ever been in a new timezone, so I was pretty excited. Since the storm, we had ridden on very fat ground, nothing but fields all around us. We rode under the "giant" electric poles, as i call them, and could hear the electricity from the wires, which was a little scary. We decided to head a little further south to miss some of the traffic. We made it to Knox, where we stopped at McDonalds to use the restrooms and internet again then set up camp under a shelter in the city park. We decided we didn't even need dinner since Phyllis fed us so well, so we just snacked on some Oreos. We ended up doing70.22 miles today, even with all of our stopping (the wind was with us for a good portion of the day!).
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