Left Muscatine, Iowa this morning and entered Illinois, and the most observable fact was it was pretty much flat!! Yeh!! A few minor rollers, but nothing to difficult. The biggest difficulty today was it was very cold. Didn’t get above 50 degrees today and the wind was blowing at 10 mph from the North. We were pedaling East so the wind was hitting us on our left side. Didn’t hinder our riding much, but it did seem to blow right through us. By the time we finished riding today I didn’t think I would ever get warm again, but a very hot shower thawed me out and warmed me up good. We pedaled 80 miles today and saw corn, more corn, and more corn. I have never seen so much corn in my life. We are in Kewanee, Illinois tonight.

I am enjoying Patty being with us, and hearing all of her praise about my muscles and good looks 🙂 but she flies back home on Monday ;-(

Tomorrow is our rest day so I am going to sleep a lot, read a lot, do some writing, spend time talking to Patty, but I won’t even look at my bicycle!!

i love you all very much! Dee