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Effingham - A Day of Rest
... Robby showed us pictures taken in that area, namely Garden of the Gods in The Shawnee National Forest. When we left we headed to a coffee shop named Joe Sippers, which came highly recommended by Kyle, and also by someone back in Neoga. After dinner it was dark but we feel confidant with our new lighting and headed back for the daunting task of readying for tomorrow, the repacking of our now dry equipment, the mapping, and yes, the ...
Mattoon to Effingham
... but the more we peddled the more it rained, and this time it was harder and with closer lightning and louder thunder! We became drenched and came upon the town of Sigel none too soon, spotted a cafe (what we now call our safehavens!) and sought refuge in the foyer of Krampe's Cafe. We had an obligatory beer, asked for a mop to clean up the puddles we left on the floor and no sooner did the rain stop. Yet again ...
Champaign to Mattoon
... just numbered it was easy to track our mileage because cross roads formed a grid of 1-mile squares. We finally reached the Charleston to Mattoon bike trail for our last ten miles. We were so extremely exhausted at that point we were contemplating changing our destination to Charleston which was only three miles to the east, as opposed to Mattoon, our original destination ten miles to the west, when we came upon walkers, Casey and Kevin. We asked them which ...
Winery stop
Since we decided that we are going to visit all the state together, and you can't count them from just driving through; we decided to stop in Illinois at a winery and do a tasting. The winery is a gorgeous Tuscan built building with a fountain and a round about out front. We went in a did a tasting and ended up walking out with 4 bottles. :P
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Heading to Reading, Pa
Well the race is over and we got off the track fairly early, headed down the road a piece to a Walmart, not really a lot to report.....kinda boring weekend, people at the track was more intersted in booze and food and not t-shirts, I was telling Marge that what was so funny about this race is that not a whole lot of people was wearing racing apparel....strange people up this ...