Crossing The Mighty Mississip?

Soon after leaving St. Louis' hospitality we came upon the Mighty Mississippi, well it wasn't so mighty after all. All of us were looking forward to our ferry ride across the great river, what we ended up getting was a ride on a mini barge across what seemed more like a glorified stream. Our laughter and comments about the mighty Mississippi stream drowned out any disappointment we might of had. On the other side we crossed into our next state Illinois.

The roller coaster hills of Missouri calmed, the roads greatly improved (thank God), but the corn continued. 125 miles that day of corn, who eats all of it? The most refreshing part of entering Illinois was that everyone seemed happy to see us. When we pulled into Nokomis at 8:30 that night the the girls went into the police station to ask if there was a place to camp. While they where in there the town's church minister drove up to Mike and I and offered us a place to stay. Without hesitation we took her up on her offer. On the way to the church people kept stopping generously asking us if we wanted to stay at there homes. Then on the way to dinner three other towns people asked if we needed places to stay or if we needed pillows or other amenities. Nokomis, Illinois you are the most friendly town in the USA. The next morning the minister had prepared an egg breakfast for us, which was a nice change from gas station donuts and candy, our usual.

We road on and the corn continued, and we where on to Indiana. We crossed the entire state in one and a half days, Impressive. It may seem like we are patting ourselves on our backs, we are it is impressive.