I'm from Indiana and I approve this message. Were called Hoosiers because Indianaians has too many vowels in a row. Shhh! Don't tell the Hawaiians.
@BGLastFrontier27
3 ай бұрын
When you paddle the Ohio/Tennesee/Tombigbee rivers/canals to Mobile Bay. I'll be glad for the chance to be a River Paladin. Matt with the umbrella reminded me of the Sail from last year.
@KC3YCU
3 ай бұрын
Water carry is like the rocket equation for hikers: the more you carry, the more you need to carry, and you eventually reach a point of diminishing returns
@JohnPamperin
3 ай бұрын
From the buildings you were filming, the Taco Bell smell you are smelling is probably soybeans. They have a distinct smell when they are being dried. Also, my umbrella idea was vindicated! Happy to see you’re in my boyhood state. If you had gone the northern route, my mom lives a mile away from the trail, and I would have asked her to pass along some coffee, danishes and nachos.
@FirstChurchofTheMasochistHikes
3 ай бұрын
Interesting!
@Lemonjellow
Ай бұрын
They walked past the Ethanol plant. 🙂
@criticaloptimist
Ай бұрын
You know the old farmer’s adage: Blondie high by Fourth of July!
@ayyy5372
3 ай бұрын
You passed by a Crane Credit Union in Mt. Vernon. Crane is a military base. A naval base. In the middle of nowhere, Indiana. 🤔🤔🤔
@DrDavidThor
3 ай бұрын
Maybe naval means bellybutton. The naval of America.
@Lemonjellow
Ай бұрын
Crane is about a 2 hour drive north.
@shadowwolf9503
Ай бұрын
I worked at Crane back in the middle 90's, finishing drywall in some buildings there. It's kinda a creepy place.
@RS-pk4mp
3 ай бұрын
Great mileage and no one was hit crossing that crowded bridge! Kudos! Enjoying the journey, but staying inside in the AC. Hike on (being careful of the heat). Cheers, Tortoise
@MGMissy
3 ай бұрын
Phew! Some of those road walks are so dicey. Stay safe!
@PascalRimbaut
3 ай бұрын
Great one ! Hurrah , new state after an other big day in the heath . The " Blondy high corn" is very impresive to me : the corn here (Belgium , Europe ) is currently 2 inches . We have now officialy had the most rain , from October till now , EVER . So farmers could not get on their fields . Keep it on .
@nicholasbalius2867
3 ай бұрын
Your my hero best cross country hiker on the move I follow a few ,amazing Matt ! ty
@FirstChurchofTheMasochistHikes
3 ай бұрын
Awe, thanks!
@markwilliams9133
3 ай бұрын
Really enjoyed the episode as usual! I think the woman who asked if you knew how hot it was going to be was referencing your attire. Those of us who grew up in the East learn to wear as little as possible in the summer, like just a T- shirt and shorts.
@FirstChurchofTheMasochistHikes
3 ай бұрын
Maybe. And on the AT I was wearing pretty minimal layers. Here like the Mississippi paddle we’re so exposed to the sun for so long that we don’t have a choice but to cover up
@fatcole1152
3 ай бұрын
I wish you well, my home state of Illinois isn't particularly welcoming to hikers. I have had the police called on me several times in the past while training for some bigger hikes. Complaints ranged from vagrancy to escaped inmate and mistaken identity with a former violent felon Geez folks, I'm just walking here
@WhackaWhacka
3 ай бұрын
I haven't had any cop encounters here in Central IL but all the loose dogs haven't been very friendly to me on bike or foot. Haven't been doing either for the past few years because I just got sick of it.
@ronsowers1763
3 ай бұрын
All the fields are no-till and rotate with Beans/Corn switching each year from the last. The former stalks are left to decompose
@Horst.724
3 ай бұрын
which earplugs are you carrying these days? I remember you mentioned them before, but can't recall what they actually were?
@FirstChurchofTheMasochistHikes
3 ай бұрын
I have some brand called Loop along for this one. More expensive than the foam but they’ve been a lot more comfortable to sleep in. When hiking I use AirPod pros
@DrDavidThor
3 ай бұрын
__ I timed the William Least Heat-Moon comments on Kansas with a five-day lag between your videos and your physical location. I assume that mentally you're already starting to prepare yourself for the Kansas crossing. --david, more or less on the solstice
@FirstChurchofTheMasochistHikes
3 ай бұрын
I’ve been preparing myself for Kansas since last year sometimes feels like. I kept threatening to get a hat for Jen that said f yea, Kansas! With a picture of corn and a tornado. But that was silly. Now I know it should have been wheat
@goodwaterhikes
3 ай бұрын
Sketchy bridge crossing but no where near the level of the Key West highway walk.😎✌
@FirstChurchofTheMasochistHikes
3 ай бұрын
The Keys big bridge had a nice big shoulder on it. I don’t remember any that stood out as particularly sketchy. There was one in Canada though
@DrDavidThor
3 ай бұрын
__ Kansas you say? William Least Heat-Moon, an actual writer despite the name, has probably written the greatest prose on Kansas ever. It's so good I'll risk breaking radio silence here with an occasional Least Heat-Moon quote on Kansas. Something interesting from a not-dying-of-heat-in-Kansas point of view is that Least Heat-Moon says that between the Missouri line and the Colorado line, Kansas rises three thousand feet. It's not nothin. My favorite Least Heat-Moon Kansas quote I'll put in an adjacent note...
@ajschiessl2162
3 ай бұрын
Congrats on making it to IL, and probably to MO by now… Have you ever done the math to see where this eclipses the PCT/CDT/ECT for miles?
@FirstChurchofTheMasochistHikes
3 ай бұрын
Thanks! Currently in Goreville and have a bit more to go before Saint Louis. PCT was 2,600 miles, CDT a bit north of 3k, ECT was right around 5k. This should be around 4,900
@ripvanrevs
3 ай бұрын
@@FirstChurchofTheMasochistHikesYou were only about 2 miles from Gore, Ohio when you stayed at the shelter!
@duarteliberi
3 ай бұрын
Not organic farming. Just crop rotation. Corn strips nitrogen from the soil and beans add nitrogen to the soil. And yeah there are typically a few rogue corn plants that come up. They will spray later and they will be eradicated.
@gregburkhart9764
3 ай бұрын
That bridge!
@trudyeagan8160
3 ай бұрын
❤
@davidsixtwo
3 ай бұрын
Indiana and Missouri are the two Midwest states most hostile to stealth camping. Good to get into Illinois.
@FirstChurchofTheMasochistHikes
3 ай бұрын
Honestly, the thing with stealth camping is if you do it correctly, you don’t have to worry about the area being hostile to it. As long as you can get into cover.
@davidsixtwo
3 ай бұрын
@@FirstChurchofTheMasochistHikes It's all fine as long as you don't get caught -- I've been caught and woken up by police, not fun.
@Lemonjellow
Ай бұрын
I'm from this exact part of Indiana. It's because of one pot meth cooks hiding their pots in the woods. If someone is in my woods at night without permission, let's just say they better learn to assume a non threatening position til their ride with flashing lights arrives... That being said. Most people, like water guy, if you'd have asked, would have been fine with you stopping more than likely. Hell, they might have offered a room or a barn. I know my cousin would have, they walked through his farm land. Also, if you can't make Mt. Vernon, but want out of Evansville, aim for USI campus. If you go to the back of campus where the disc golf course is all you'll have to worry about is getting stepped on by drunk/stoned college kids and overweight campus security in golf carts. In Evansville, you'll be fine at night and on the South East side if you stick to streetlights. Be respectful and nobody will bother you. Don't try to sleep in city parks at night. You'll find out real quick it's a bad idea. Do not stay under the overpasses on the expressway or try to camp in the woods behind Kohls off the Lloyd on the west side. You'll get attacked by homeless junkies. The cheaper hotels that are still nice are by the airport an extremely long walk from downtown. Turoni's on N. Main has good pizza and veggie options.
@DrDavidThor
3 ай бұрын
__ Kansas is a "rectangle of discomfiture." --William Least Heat-Moon (discomfiture's the old word for discomfort.) The rectangle is Kansas, although I gotta say, isn't Colorado a better rectangle? Kansas has a tiny squiggle in the upper right corner that untangles the rec-tangle.
@ayyy5372
3 ай бұрын
"Rectangle of discomfiture" is 100% becoming the way I refer to Kansas, even if it's not exactly a rectangle, what with the squiggly corner and all.
@butchbinion1560
3 ай бұрын
Thanks, go taters go. ✌🏻👊🏼
@markrenfrow9873
3 ай бұрын
Hey Y'all. 'Nother state finished.
@jeffprice9105
3 ай бұрын
I checked out that Wabash River Bridge on street view that looks super sketchy 🙀
@Lemonjellow
Ай бұрын
You should try driving it 😂
@RICHIEV333
3 ай бұрын
Matt always jokes about the movie Deliverance... But I think this is about to turn into Taters of the Corn.
@FirstChurchofTheMasochistHikes
3 ай бұрын
“It’s a movie about corn and children Jen, you’ll like it” We did watch the first episode of Fallout last night and she didn’t quite share my joy at pointing out the corn in the vault
@RICHIEV333
3 ай бұрын
@@FirstChurchofTheMasochistHikes I have not seen the TV show but loved Fallout 3, New Vegas and 4. I really need to watch the show!
@FirstChurchofTheMasochistHikes
3 ай бұрын
@@RICHIEV333 only seen the first episode so far, but they did a pretty good job on capturing the overall vibe of the games
@RICHIEV333
3 ай бұрын
@@FirstChurchofTheMasochistHikes That is good to hear. I will definitely watch it!
@DrDavidThor
3 ай бұрын
__ "While one might with accuracy describe the horizon in the Kansas west of the hundredth meridian as smooth and unbroken...in truth, Kansas is marvelously tilted. That's how the Colorado Rockies can make their slow way, granule by granule, eastward to end up the Gulf of Mexico." --William LHM.
@Lemonjellow
Ай бұрын
I can attest that most of Northern Indiana is flatter than Kansas.
@TXMEDRGR
3 ай бұрын
"it smells like Taco Bell." The epitome of an anti-Taco Bell commercial.
@ripvanrevs
3 ай бұрын
Just had a delicious cheesy bean and rice burrito and cinnamon twists!
@FirstChurchofTheMasochistHikes
3 ай бұрын
I actually don’t hate Taco Bell. I don’t eat it often but sometimes when off trail I’ll get it on rare occasion. Still bitter about them getting rid of the double decker taco
@Lemonjellow
Ай бұрын
Was the Ethanol plant they smelled.
@ericbrown1401
3 ай бұрын
Escaping Indiana and welcome to Hellinois. Make sure you pay your oxygen tax when you cross the border.
@MrIanJHoy
3 ай бұрын
corn needs to be knee high by the fourth of july. now you can compare crops for the rest of the month. Stay sane!
@dorotheaivanovna9457
3 ай бұрын
What kind of hiking shoes does Jen wear?
@FirstChurchofTheMasochistHikes
3 ай бұрын
She has some cheap ish ASICS. Her feet are a lot less problematic than some of us
@wolfeadventures
3 ай бұрын
Sounds of industry.
@hankremer6606
3 ай бұрын
Day 71. Cigarette bootlegging? That kind of stuff still happens?
@FirstChurchofTheMasochistHikes
3 ай бұрын
Per the internet it’s still an active issue to the point they spend money fighting it. You learn something new every day
@Lemonjellow
Ай бұрын
Cigarette tax pays government pensions in Indiana 😂 Smoke more. My dad wants a new car!
@knittingnana2939
3 ай бұрын
I have a question. I am considerably older than you, but when i was a kid and we were learning road safety, we were told to walk WITH traffic, not against it. What is the advantage to walking against traffic? Is it because you can see the cars coming toward you and potentially jump out of the way if need be?
@goodwaterhikes
3 ай бұрын
I like to keep an eye on traffic so I walk against the flow but may temporarily cross over on blind curves. 😎✌
@ripvanrevs
3 ай бұрын
I'm 59 and always walked or ran against traffic. Also always ran behind cars at intersections.
@FirstChurchofTheMasochistHikes
3 ай бұрын
When riding a bike you go with traffic because you’re a vehicle and can take a lane. When walking it’s always against since you can see the cars coming and if needed throw yourself off the road. I’ll sometimes cross if it’s a particularly bad blind curve though
@blueandgreenslacks
3 ай бұрын
I’m with Taters, they call ‘em fly over states for a reason. 😂😂😂
@ripvanrevs
3 ай бұрын
Because you want to miss the best part of the United States?
@blueandgreenslacks
3 ай бұрын
@@ripvanrevs because I’d rather miss the “average “ midwesterner and tornado alley and the bible belt.
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