July 22, 1996
Gibson City, IL to Lafayette, IN:
"Cornjerkers", really?
Rode for a while this morning with John and Larry, whom we met last night at our motel. They're going to spend a few days at the Olympics in Atlanta. John is a dairy farmer (taught us about corn) and a high school wrestling coach and Larry (an engineer) was a high school wrestler who went to State, which interested us, of course. We joked that we'd look for them in the men's cycling event. We rode into Indiana about 11 a.m. After a while, it had a little more variety than Illinois, some gentle grades and more trees.
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Rode onto Purdue's campus enough to get a picture.
Lafayette is large and I hated riding through the city traffic. We found ourselves on an on-ramp of an interstate, so had to do an about-face. State Police came along and stayed behind us on the next road so I thought we might get a traffic ticket, but didn't We saw a school whose mascot name was the "Cornjerkers"!
Today's ride: 87 miles (140 km)
Total: 2,811 miles (4,524 km)
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