From Indianapolis to Terre Haute (141 km)

We had a short break writing the blog, because we brought my daugther Stefi to Chicago, from where she flew home. Thursday we stayed in Indianapolis, Frank´s bike had a flat tire, the bearing of the rear wheel started to go, so some repairs became urgent. It was an easy decision, because it rained all day long. In the evening we enjoyed a wonderful halloween theatre, with zombies and all you need to be afraid. Great performance in an old church. Unfortunately only about 8 people came to see the show, so we were heavily outnumbered by the zombies, but we didn´t get eaten by them.

Today we went on. First we tried on the old historic highway 40, but soon we gave up because the traffic was annoying. That brought us on nice country roads (42), rarely cars passing, scenic landscape and of course, many farms. We are really surprised how good the roads are in the US. Maybe that is one good side of the economical crisis, because the goverment spends a lot of money to improve the local infrastructure, such as roads in order to keep people working.

Lunch was in an all American small town pub, the only place in town. Countrymusic loud and nice, the service a lot ot fun but the food was just ok. What was cooked on site was ok, but then we had also some surprises. The bread came with butter, which wasn´t butter but was suposed to taste like butter. After reading about the ingrediants, Corn oil, palm oil, water, buttermilk etc. we didn´t eat it. Then Frank ordered a coffee. It came with cream.... or? No, it wasn´t cream, again something made out of cheap fats, chemistry and water to taste like cream. On the package was even written: Might contain milk! as if to warn people. ´We asked the waitress, why they serve that stuff. She laughed and said " its cheaper!" And then she asked us were we are from.

Anyway, it shows alot about the food culture, things must be cheap, but cheap things have their pricetag too. A lot of food we see here simply is made to look like the original but isnt. And probably, people get used to it. A bit sad, isn´t it!