Start: Wabash, Indiana 9:50 am

End: Prairie Creek Reservoir Park outside of Muncie, Indiana 7 pm

Total miles: 70 miles

The day started out great. I headed out from my Warm Showers campsite to a quick breakfast in town and then onto back corn roads that all looked like this with names like W 350 N

Then onto more rails and trails that looked like this

And had a perfect lunch in Marion, Indiana and great conversation with the owner of the small cafe.

She told me that the trail went all the way to Richmond. So I settled in for a relaxing afternoon in the trail.

But then Apple Maps took me away from the trail (to be fair, it ended though I now know it picked up a bit later) and onto a never-ending zigzag of corn roads—W 150 N then E 850 W, etc left and right, some with gravel, all with startled dogs and all the southbound roads facing into what was easily a 20 mph headwind.

I was grouchy.

I now know that i can’t blindly trust these bots. They are not cyclists.

Eventually I got back on the trail and made it to my campground in time to see the sun set over the reservoir and just before some rain.

Am snug in the tent and looking forward to being smarter tomorrow.

Hope springs eternal.