Scenes from the Cornfields

Here's me at Lake of the Woods Forest Preserve in Mahomet. This was at the 1/3 way point on my 50 mile trip early last week.

The roads and railroad tracks in Central Illinois all run either North-South or East-West. Period. There are no curves. It's just straight lines as far as the eye can see. This makes navigation pretty easy out here.

This turkey vulture was eying me up as I pulled in to Philo on a trip last weekend. He must have flown off because I looked like slim pickings.

Yes, a hill is great cause for alarm in Central Illinois. They have warning signs to explain the danger.

This is a covered bridge over the Sangamon River in Lake of the Woods Forest Preserve. It was built in 1965.

"Holy crap. A river."

This is me on the parade grounds of the dilapidated Chanute Air Force Base in Rantoul. I had just biked across 20 miles of windy terrain from Mahomet and I was pretty tired. The wind was blowing 25 miles per hour that day - and not from the "helpful" direction.