Hotel had very limited internet, so didn't get this posted last night.
Still in the cropland of the central midwest: low rolling hills with mixed cropland (still corn and soybean, but now a few other crops like squash) and forest. Small creeks. Great cycling roads with little traffic and rolling hills and sweeping curves.
Lots of farm homes along the roads and frequent small villages.
The whole area - starting way back in Iowa is remnants of the continental glaciation: if I understand correctly, the area where we are now was under the ice sheets and is soil left when the sheets melted. The hillier areas in Iowa - and where we'll arrive in 2 days in eastern Ohio are the moraines at the edges of the ice.
The pictures are some decorations on the side of an old building, a tank care in a passing train - one of several hundred, it seemed, containing the future lard asses of American in the form of corn syrup, and a reminder plaque from the support van.
6.8 hr, 190 KM (118 miles), 17.4 mph, 88 pulse, 135 watts, 135 meters climbing, 3050 kJoules
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