Today’s Highlights:
Our ride today took us another ninety six miles across Illinois, from Springfield to Champaign. Part of our route followed the Lincoln Trail, which highlights notable areas and events associated with Abraham Lincoln, the 16th USA president. We crossed the Sangamon River close to where his cabin was, and had our first rest stop at the Lincoln Trail Homestead State Park.
The terrain today was flat. We traveled on some main roads, although they were very quite on this Saturday morning, and also on some small country farm roads. The scenery was primarily farms, with the main crops being corn and soybeans, but also some occasional wheat. The most notable difference today was the thick cloud cover. We have not had rain this entire trip, and we are in our 35th day. Today it looked like it might rain, and I did actually feel a few drops just before reaching the hotel, but I won’t count that as being rained on. So we had some nice cloud cover and a break from the sun, with brief moments of blue sky showing. Photo opportunities were minimal today. It was just a pleasant ride through quite farms.
Pictures Of The Day:
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