Old Gillett Farm
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Old route 66
... a 900 lb. bike by yourself! At the next toll, I just blew through without paying!
I visited the Lincoln Museum and Library at the end of the day. It's an unbelievable story. Rube from the hicks educates himself, fails in senatorial race in 1858 and wins presidency in 1860! Then he had to govern during a civil war.
All in all, a fabulous day on the bike and off. Over and ...
It was this big......
So passing through Funks Grove and McLean I have arrived in Atlanta. Home of the second Route 66 giants. It is one of those places like a tidy town winner, clean and brilliantly bright along the main strip with the subtle suburbia hiding in the ...
Dying for trade
The main industry for Lincoln appears to be tombstones!!! There are about 5 purveyors of beautifully crafted marble head stones, in all different shapes to cater for all, there is the one shaped like a dear for the hunter, the American flag for the patriot, the car, the motorbike, the list goes on and on. Again it is another one on those patriotic towns ...
Illinois
... a museum. Our next planned stop was The Old Log Cabin restaurant, however it despite it's interesting history of being physically moved when the route was altered, it looked disappointingly unauthentic, so we continued to Bloomington where our expectations of Illinois were met. Stretching to the horizon all around we're cornfields. The roads were lined with wooden houses, with swinging chairs on the front ...
I'm Really Leaving
Everything's kind of surreal right now.
Part of that is from sleep deprivation this week.... but I'm also having a hard time accepting that I'm really leaving. Somewhere in the back of my mind I'm convinced that all of the anticipation from everyone here will keep building for a little longer, fade away, and life will just continue on as normal.
But I'm really leaving.
I'm experiencing too many emotions to begin to describe how I'm feeling. I've been ...
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