Through Illinois to Indiana

Since Iowa City gave us no reason to stay another day, we headed east for home.  The Illinois landscape we saw is very much like that of Maryland – rolling and green with deciduous trees.  To amuse ourselves (okay, to amuse me), we tried to take pictures of cool old barns along the highway as we traveled at 60 miles per hour.  Not very successful – missed many cool shots – but it was entertaining.

But then we reached the Chicago area – on Sunday afternoon – where the traffic was a dead-on copy of DC’s beltway during a weekday rain storm.  Ugh.  We have gotten used to the near-empty highways of Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, and the Dakotas.  When we got through that traffic, we stopped at a visitor center and were entertained by the Blue Angels (I presume) who happened to be putting on a show nearby.  It was a pleasant interlude for us and our fellow travelers, especially the little kids who really were enjoying themselves.

 

Anyway, we stopped for the night at a KOA in South Bend, Indiana – home of the fighting Irish and have plans to visit the campus tomorrow morning before we head east again.  We’re getting excited about getting home, but are still mindful of enjoying each of these last days of our trip.