(a few miles west of Indianapolis)

Today started out as a dreary, drizzly day (so much for the weather report). But as soon as I got out of Pennsylvania, it turned into a beautiful day and was sunny and not too warm for the rest of the day.

I’m in Brownsburg, IN now. That’s about 90 miles past where I had planned to stop, but it was such a nice day I decided to keep going.

The only bad spot in today’s trip was construction west of Indianapolis. Over the past few years, they tore up the east side, but I guess they ran out of things to do there, so now they’re on the west side. In addition to having 465 and 74 in a state of disarray, apparently they decided to move their airport.

I’ll be heading on to Davenport, IA (or a little bit further) on Wednesday.

I’m in Somerset, PA again today. Last night the weather forecast for today was very poor, and the Weather Channel was reporting tornado and hail alerts along my route west, so I decided to stay in Somerset another day.

When I went out for breakfast this morning, rain started coming down as I was walking back to the hotel, and the sky was grey all the way to the west, so that’s when I decided to stay.

Of course, the rest of the day here was nice. But the various web sites say that there was rain to the west, so it is probably a good thing I stayed over.

On the way here, I stopped in Carlisle (just before the PA Turnpike) for a break. On the way out, there were a large number of GTO’s lined up at the gas station. They were behind me from there onto the Turnpike, and snapped some pictures. Here’s a sample:

Photo credit: SK360 via Atom Club

It is only fair that I return the favor:

I’ll be moving on to Richmond, IN on Tuesday. So far, the weather along my route should be good until at least Friday.

For those keeping track of mileage, 370 miles so far on this trip.

Just a reminder – I have a dedicated Atom Across America phone number – 551-580-0100. I’ll be updating the voice message there every night or two (except when I’m in an area with no phone service). The message will tell you where I am and where I’m likely to be stopping the next night. If you’re lucky, I might actually answer that number in person when you call!

I’m going cross-country again – to California and back!

Here’s a map of  the trip out (click on it to view a live version in Google Maps):

And back (likewise):

If you’d like to look at a larger view of the map, click here and here.

Here’s a PDF calendar for June and July. Note that only dates marked with a [*] are guaranteed to have me where I say I’ll be – figure on a couple of days of slack either way for weather on the other days.

Stay tuned for more updates!