This was another two lane highway kind of day, mostly on Hwy’s 44W, 39N and 40W from Connersville to Terre Haute. I’ve been lucky with the roads lately: good condition, very little traffic, and interesting sights. Also, it’s been easy to avoid getting lost.
This is where I started the day in Connersville.
After riding through so much corn country over the past few weeks I was glad to be able to watch it being harvested. It was an interesting and impressive process, to me, and I spent quite a bit of time parked on the road watching the people and machinery. If you’re interested, you can learn more here.
Some of the corn escapes the muncher…
…but most ends up in the truck.
This is the Johnson County Courthouse in Franklin, IN. I like this vintage of building, and there are many examples of it in the Midwest.
Your guess is as good as mine on this one. Someone staged this accident with a tree plunged through the car and a bloodied dummy inside. I don’t know who set it up, or why, but I thought you’d want me to share it with you.
I was traveling west and there was a strong south wind all day long that demanded my attention.
There were only a few specific destinations I had in mind when I started this trip. Terre Haute, Indiana was one of them. This is where Max Ehrmann lived his life. He wrote Desiderata, and was an interesting person in other ways also. I would like to have had a chance to talk to him. If you’re looking at this on a smartphone and can’t read the words in the photo, may-be you can read it here. The town has placed a statue of Mr. Ehrmann on a street corner where he used to sit, write and talk to people. It is at the “Crossroads of America” intersection.
Some evening pictures of Terre Haute taken on my walk to dinner.
Thanks for sharing, like the “click here” for more information. Have a great day!
Thanks, Mike, for passing on to us the words of wisdom and enlightenment from Max Ehrmann. I spent some time pondering them, but quite coincidently, last night I was recalling similar thoughts (from him?) that my consciousness/being is a product of all those points of matter, the invisible energy and the void of space that we call the universe, and through my consciousness, the universe is now aware of itself. I agree with you and Max about the value of silence.
I love the juxtaposition of the staged car/tree accident and the Desiderata in your blog for this day.
Thanks so much for taking that picture of “DESDIDERATE” and it’s wonderful message for all to understand and hopefully incorporate it’s message into humanity. Have not read it for awhile – and good to see it again.
Also – it amazes me to see these old-style buildings in the middle of farming country, in the “CROSSROADS OF AMERICA” as they state – you would expect to find them in congested big cities, with all the busy-ness of the city, tourism, people waiting in long lines to see them – and there they are in farming country, fairly unpopulated, easy access to view – majestic in their own way. Please keep sending those landscape photos, farming, highways aligned with minimal utility poles and wires. We don’t see this much in CA. It’s pretty cool to see, kind of takes me back in time. Thanks.
Words of caution about the weather, may be partly due to the mega hurricane coming into Mexico. Heard Texas has lots of floods. Hurricane rift may infiltrate some of the areas you are going to travel.
Mike, like many other places in North America, French explorers left their mark there. ‘Terre haute’ means ‘high ground’. Desiderata stakes out the high ground of the human spirit.