Miles 73.58 Total Miles 976.66 Daily Avg 61.04
Avg Speed 15.2 Max Speed 36.7 Alt climbed 3497 ft
Yesterday we crossed into the central time zone gaining 1 hour. After a delicious breakfast with the Feltus we depart at 7:45 heading for Sebree, Ky. The roads had less hills today and we actually had a tail wind for much of the ride. What a terrific feeling to already have ridden 65 miles and be cruising the last 5 miles, along flat roads at 20 miles per hour into Sebree.
Riding along we began to hear a few cicadas in the trees. As we progressed the noise got louder and there was a strange hum or vibration sound underneath the cicada rhythm. The sound was as if were were in a strange sci fi movie or an X File episode, I expected to see Mulder and Scully come walking through the woods. The sound intensified as we rode through wooded areas. We learned
cicadas are present every year but every 13th year the number increase drastically. It was an eerie sound. I would not like to live in the heavily infested areas.
cicadas are present every year but every 13th year the number increase drastically. It was an eerie sound. I would not like to live in the heavily infested areas.
Tonight we are staying in the basement youth center of the First Baptist Church of Sebree. The pastor Bob and his wife Violet have invited us to spend the night and join them for dinner. Joining us are Wendy and Graeme, from New Zealand and Bruce, from Wisconsin and their neighbor Glenn. If we were not cycling so many miles each day we would be packing on the pounds. Joey will have to be careful since he spends a good part of the day behind the wheel. Tonight's dinner consisted of chicken casserole, delicious mac and cheese, butter beans, rolls and cantaloupe. Desert was homemade lemon icebox pie with vanilla ice cream. Another delicious meal this week, from Gail's house in Elizabethtown, to the Feltus', and now The First Baptist Church. We are amazed and humbled by the generosity of the people we meet.
Feltus Main House
Cottage our home for the night
Morning Mist
Feltus Farm
Kentucky Farm land
Kentucky Farmland
Interesting storage shed or outhouse
.Male cicadas have loud noisemakers called "tymbals" on the sides of the abdominal base. Their "singing" is not the stridulation (where one structure is rubbed against another) of many other familiar sound-producing insects like crickets: the tymbals are regions of the exoskeleton that are modified to form a complex membrane with thin, membranous portions and thickened "ribs". Contracting the internal tymbal muscles produces a clicking sound as the tymbals buckle inwards. As these muscles relax, the tymbals return to their original position producing another click. The interior of the male abdomen is substantially hollow to amplify the resonance of the sound. A cicada rapidly vibrates these membranes, and enlarged chambers derived from the tracheae make its body serve as a resonance chamber, greatly amplifying the sound. The cicada modulates the sound by positioning its abdomen toward or away from the substrate. Additionally, each species has its own distinctive "song".[1]
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