Coralville to Fulton Illinois

Camp packed up quick this morning in anticipation of a 100 mile day. Buy 6 am half of the breakfast was gone and a few people were ready to go. We climbed out of town and headed for Illinois. We came across a little white church. 

It reminded me of the old Springdale church. 

We went by a big cement tower. It seemed to be out of place in the middle of a corn field. It looked like something out of the war. 

Here's Harold on a road that never ends. The landscape is changing again. There's more water, actually all the creeks and rivers are full. We are cycling through forests. The hills are also calming down. 

The first sag stop proved to be tough to find because a few people got lost. 

The rolling hills are beautiful to look at but not as nice to ride. 

Here's a truck on a pole. Who does that. 

This is the town of Clarence. It's about as big as you can see on the pic. The best part was at the end of town a guy had a row of tractors. 

Nice tractors. The sign beside the house said welcome to Clarence. Under the sign it said "next 3 exits".  Why is that funny you ask. I think the town only had two cross roads in it.

We came into the town right next to the Mississippi. There were about 50 tractor trailers lined up going into this plant. We stopped and asked a guy and he said it was a corn processing plant. This plant was huge.

We took a bridge across the Mississippi and into Fulton Illinois. If you look in the distance you can see a windmill. 

Here's you sign. 

 We are staying just on the other side of the Mississippi. We're at the Christian school in town. I went down the road and toured the windmill. 

  The town had a band playing praise songs. They were great.  They even played a little Johnny Cash. 

They made us a great meal. We had pies and ice cream. It was great. Well off to bed. Oh by the way the ride went great. See you tommorow.  Len.