26 August 2010 -- Spent the morning on country roads between Muscatine and Burlington Iowa. The choice made good sense beforehand and turned out that way. It was a straightforward ride with deer, yellow-bodied, black-winged and cardinal birds, and a donkey the highlights of the ride – oh yeah, and a large, immaculate brick church [Apostolic Christian Church] and the Iowa River -- .all put highlights on the ride through sparsely populated Southeastern Iowa. From Burlington I saw no decent routes south, so we headed straight east back into Illinois, stopping everywhere we spotted a motel to try and get a room and reconnoiter the roads. All were no pet motels (we did find an AmericInn in Monmouth IL that would suffer to take Sam for a mere $75 cleaning fee. No thanks AmericInn. I know this is not national policy because we stayed at the same chain in Wisconsin and there the fee was $25. If I have any control we won’t be trying this chain again. So here we are in Central Illinois headed for Taylorville tomorrow. Wouldn’t you know it, there’s a weekend balloon festival in this town starting tomorrow. I did my best.
Thought for the day: There’s something head lightening about balloons.
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