(Sep 29, cont.)
These are a few photos I took on my ride through Hancock County, on my way from Pendleton to Reuben Bentley’s home near Carthage in Rush County. It wasn’t the kind of sunny afternoon I had hoped for, but there were sometimes a few patches of blue sky.
This one was taken near Nashville, on what the UniversalMap calls the Nashville Pike. One of the county histories calls it the Fort Wayne State Road. This part is no longer a state road, but a mile or so ahead it becomes state route 109.
At Warrington I turned off the Nashville Pike and went south. I don’t know that I needed to do that for the sake of traffic avoidance, but my preference is for the quiet county roads.
This is somewhere between Wilkinson and Willow Branch, where I had to jog to the east a bit, into the wind. Nothing to complain about, though. I had been able to practice good headwind avoidance all three days, even though all three days were fairly breezy.
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