August 20
Leaving the Lake Michigan shoreline and the Eastern time zone, I went south into Indiana and spent overnight in Central Time. The sweetest section of today's ride was a well paved, low traffic 20+ mile section through farmland. As I examined and photographed some of the interesting equipment used to irrigate fields, it suddenly struck me how capital intensive agriculture is -- I saw almost no people working at it today. I know that changes at different points in the planting and harvesting cycle; today was all about the plants just quietly growing under sun and light rain.
Riding into North Judson I thought "Oh cool, they have an active rail depot here, not a depressing abandoned one" but it turned out to be their Railroad Museum, which is outdoors on railroad tracks.