Location: Teutopolis, IL
Today was a long one. We left St. Louis early and headed east over the Mississippi River via the Chain of Rocks Bridge which is part of Historic Route 66. We stayed on or near the Route for a grand total of about 116.5 miles, which is either the longest of the trip thus far, or at least up there. Thankfully, it was very flat compared to what we had seen towards the end of Kansas and in Missouri. Also, the weather was considerably nicer.
I think the total time it took to reach our lodging (with stops) was about nine hours. We were supposed to be in Effingham, IL, but apparently something fell through there, so we had to continue a few more miles down the road to here.
It's nice to be out of Missouri -- and as much as I rag on it, even that state was pretty neat. (Although it was sort of scary to cycle through some of the slums this morning...but it was Sunday morning and either nobody was up, or they were at church. Or it was just all abandoned, which is probably closer to the truth.) This is our only stop in Illinois; tomorrow we head right over the border to Indiana and cross into the Eastern Time Zone. So I'll be a full three hours ahead of Seattle. Whoa.
I looked at a map of where we were in the States the other day, and it was really crazy to look at all the places we've left behind. It's sad to realize that we have less than three weeks until it's all over...
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