Day 48: University of Indiana Hoosiers

It was a beautiful ride and misty morning on our way to Bloomington, IN. We once again made our way through the flat and green country roads. I got another flat today which was a little frustrating and I ended up needing a new tire because I had worn it until it was no longer usable. Our 70 mile ride took us to Indiana University, home of the Hoosiers, where we would stage up for our arrival at a friendship visit with Stone Belt.

When we rolled in there were a ton of clients and staff of the disability center welcoming us. They served a cafeteria style lunch for everyone as we got to know the people there. I spent most of my time there hanging out with Joy who was an older lady in a wheel chair with some disabilities I am not sure about. She was very aware of everything but seemed a bit slow. Her and I played all the activities the center had set up like bean bag toss, bowling, duck fishing, and bingo. After every activity she would say, “thank you thank you;” she was so sweet and very enjoyable to be around.

After the friendship visit we headed to lodging which was at the Pi Kappa Phi house on the Greek Row at Indiana University. The university here is 30% greek which is enormous especially for a school of its size (about 35,000 students). So as you could imagine all the greek fraternity and sororities are large mansions. I could not believe how many houses there were and the size of all of them. The Pi Kapp chapter was enormous as well and I heard it’s the biggest chapter house of Pi Kappa Phi in the nation. Inside and out the house was very elegant and clean. We slept in the beds provided on the top floor and also ate dinner there as well.
After eating steaks we watched the show America’s Got Talent because one of the cyclists on the team (Andrew Lewis) is competing in it with his drum team. They did really good and the judges voted them to stick around for another round. That show was a recording so Andrew is still cycling with us but its possible that he may have to leave us for a few days to do some recording for the show.

Tonight Joel, Sartin, and I rode our bikes and toured the campus; it was a very different feeling being on the bike at a leisure state plus the campus was really neat. Tomorrow we will be in Indianapolis, IN and have a day off.