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Iroquois County IL

• 08.23.08
  Iroquois, Illinois
  Iroquois County IL (0)

  The town of Iroquois was the end of the day's ride of 72 miles. It was a long ride, but it has taken more time to blog about it than it did to ride it. There was a little park alongside the highway. After taking a few photos we put the bicycle on the top of the car. A young man came over and asked if we were thru-bikers. We weren't of course. I haven't done much of that kind of riding lately. But he told us that a lot of thru-bikers stay overnight ...
  
  
• 08.22.08
  Illinois-Indiana border
  Iroquois County IL (1)

  More Aug 3. When I got to the Illinois border, the windmills came to an end. In the photo above, Illinois is on the left side of the road, and Indiana on the right. One of the things I looked forward to in Illinois was using the excellent bicycle maps put out by the Department of Transportation. I have paper fold-up maps from four years ago, but those are no longer distributed. In some ways it's not quite as nice, but you can now download them here as PDFs, county-by-county. The above is a snippet ...