Day 16, In Defiance of Headwinds

As the left sides of our bodies get tanner and tanner (ok, or sun poisoning) as a result of going from east to west constantly, we understand more and more why people use zinc though it makes you look pasty white and odd.

Today from a biking standpoint consisted of very little interesting news as we only passed through one real town, called Defiance. Also, we experienced insane headwinds and we crossed the 1000 mile threshold (only 3000 to go!) and are thus one-quarter of the way done. We also crossed into Indiana today and therefore have one-third of our state count done.

Indiana may be the crossroads of America but they don't have signage proclaiming any sort of grand entrance into their state, and thus we rode on a four-lane highway to get to this sign in order to commemorate our entrance into Lincoln's boyhood home state.

Post-bike, we are so lucky to have had Stephanie's Aunt Marilyn and Uncle Jim drive down from Michigan to greet us in Monroeville, IN (try to find THAT on a map) and were so sweet to put us up for the night in a hotel and take us out to dinner! We went to Mad Anthony's Brewhouse in Fort Wayne--Mad Anthony is the nickname of Anthony Wayne, a general with a 'fiery personality' in the American Revolution, and whom Fort Wayne is named after. He also happens to have some pretty fine brews named in his honor, which we were grateful to taste after a long day of dry mouth from the headwinds.

Tomorrow we are trailer-free as Auntie M and Uncle Jimmy will be taking our stuff to our next destination for us! This is the ultimate way to make the endless cornfields and blowing winds bearable and we are blessed to have so many friends and family support us on our journey.

Here's to hoping tomorrow brings less decomposing animals on the side of the road than usual.