Awoke to clear skies....but that changed pretty quickly. Wind....rain...thunder....and lightening!!!



The one thing we haven't seen for a while now...Coffee Kiosks!!! You cannot get a special coffee anywhere here!  Three days we have been trying!

Not much to see flying down the highway.....while it's raining....

More corn and more soyabeans!



And the appearance of wind-farms.....You will see the wind-farms...and then at the next town you will see all the signs saying "NO to the Wind-farms!" 


We are also seeing lots of farms that have these ponds...some of them even have been dyed blue...but they are just ponds...and they have Party Boats on them??? They are barely big enough for a kayak...
We are also seeing more of the farms that have RV's beside the barns...we had seen a lack of RV's for a while.

We put in a full day today...left at about 9:30 and pulled into the campsite at 6:00...thanks to a 1-hour time change!!! Yay!!!

Starved Rock State Park in Illinois....and guess what?....it's quiet! only about 10 of us here?
We saw a sign of the times..... "Firewood Vending Machine"!!!


And I always look in the old dead trees...
looking for life of some sort...and found a snake hiding out in this one!

Super quiet campsite....that's what's really nice about the State Parks...the sites are large and they are typically out in the wilderness....it's so peaceful....and when they are empty...It's like you have your own forest!


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