My dad called this afternoon to tell me about the good shoulders on the road he was on in Indiana. I pulled out a map, and it turned out he was literally 15 to 20 miles north of me while we talked. Wacky! He said the shoulders were so good because it was Amish country and they drove their horse'n'buggies there. Shortly after that I started to see more evidence of horse on the shoulder, and then I saw some Amish people on bicycles. I don't know how the women ride in those dresses. I would get all caught up in the gears so fast.
I'm thinking all of those yellow warning signs I keep seeing with little pictures of bicycles might be marking Amish communites. I was wondering what that was all about.
Hwy 6 has pretty decent shoulders for most of the way, and the traffic is sporadic. The view is mostly cornfields, but there are plenty of nice trees to break it up.
I forgot to say it yesterday, but Indiana seems to be the kind of place where everyone smiles and greets you. People seem quite friendly here, even when I was still basically in the Chicago suburbs. In fact, I even noticed more of this in south Chicago. Not everyone, but certain demographics were smile-and-greet kind of people. In Indiana, there are less demographics involved; people are almost uniformly friendly.
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I bicycle in a skirt and dresses all the time. It surprised me the first time I did it but it worked. It actually works better in a longer skirt (shorter ones tend to ride up).
I could see where a bit longer would be good, but those amish skirts seem like they would be too long. Unless they get held up out of the way by the bicycle frame?
I agree with your assessment of Indiana--I found the people pleasant during the ten months I lived in Bloomington (I made an abortive attempt at attending law school at IU).
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