August 22
Rode until just after sunset to move into position for a short ride next day to visit 1st grade pal Sheila and her family. Today I saw lots of agricultural land, from roads and from rail trail. At one point I saw a cement pour in progress for the foundation of yet another giant silo in a cluster of silos.
I could feel a transition toward exurban, then suburban, as I approached Greater Indianapolis. Navigational challenges in Carmel arose about finding a good way to go offroute to the hotel, but I persisted and found good routing. The key to getting good off-route routing was to remain with the Adventure Cycling route until I reached its closest point to the hotel. When I did that, the last-mile routing by Google was good. (Asking Google for bicycling directions prematurely had offered me highway routes. No thanks!) Here and the next day I encountered the land of many, many roundabouts (rotaries).