Day
72 – 7-22-15 Wednesday We departed the campground and drove about 2
miles and stopped for fuel and the Walmart right behind the fuel
station so Lena could get a few necessary items. We finally got on
the road about 9AM. We crossed the state border of Illinois in about
an hour leaving Wisconsin behind. Not long after entering Illinois we
had to pay a $4.00 road toll on I-39/90. They sure are not very
generous with the amount of space they give you in each lane. We had
just a few inches clearance beside each mirror. That is the first
road toll we have had to pay.
Today
the landscape was more open farmland than yesterday. The fields of
corn and soybeans were huge – as far as you could see across the
horizon. More corn than soybeans, very little hay and not much
livestock in sight today.
We
saw the largest windmill farm we have ever seen. There were hundreds
of them in one area and none of them turning. Later we saw a few more
windmill farms and we only saw one turning so not much electricity
was being generated today from them.
We
passed lots of road construction and lots of places on the road that
needed some repairs, especially on the bridge surfaces and the road
joints at the bridges – lots of pot holes and the road repair crews
continue to use asphalt to patch the holes in a concrete road and it
is soon torn out making the repair useless. We passed one crew
patching holes by shoveling some asphalt into a hole and patting it
down with the shovel. I don't think that will last long with all the
18 wheelers we saw on the road today.
We
crossed the state border into Indiana after lunch and finally got
back into the Eastern Time Zone so we had to reset our clocks for the
last time on this trip. We think that makes 10 times we have adjusted
the time on our clocks. We have been in the following time zones:
Eastern, Central, Mountain, Pacific and Alaskan. Part of the time in
Canada and North Dakota we would change time zones more than one time
a day. We would go out of one time zone into another and later that
day go back to the time zone from earlier in the day. The GPS
automatically adjusted as the time zoned changed so we would use that
as our guide to know what time it was as we switched back and forth
during the day.
 |
| Nice car |
We
have driven over 10,600 miles as of today on this trip and saw the
second traffic accident yesterday and the third one today. The first
two were minor, today's look a little more sever. It looked like a
tractor trailer had jackknifed and the traffic was backed up for 3-4
miles. It was on the opposite side of the interstate so it did not
delay us.
After
320 miles we pulled into Sugar Creek Campground & Canoe Rental in
Crawfordsville Indiana and setup in site 11 for the night. The
campground sits beside Sugar Creek. They have recently had a lot of
rain here because some of the low ground in the open spaces near the
playground has been under water. The lady in the office said the
water was so high in the creek they could not rent any canoes due
to the swift current but it is now going down. The 10 mile drive from
the interstate to the campground was a nice change. We were in the
country and all the farms were well cared for and people's yard were
all very neat and clean.
 |
| Sugar Creek |
Tomorrow
night we plan to be in London Kentucky.
No comments:
Post a Comment