Song of the day: Keep on Rockin’ in the Free World – Neil Young
After stopping by the bike shop on the way out of town, we pushed off into Illinois. It was a short day of riding, but pretty eventful.
^us with Megan and Eric(the master chef)^
^State #4 Illinois^
We came to a closed road once again. We thought that we would be able to sneak through unnoticed because it was late in the evening. As we were walking our bikes through, we saw some workers putting down tar up ahead. We thought we would explain our situation to them when we got closer, but as we came near them they completely ignored us acting as though they didn’t even want to know that we were there. We were home free.
^Road closed once again^
Once we came to the town of Orion, we were hoping to sleep at the city park. We asked at the grocery store if that was common, and they said that they had never seen anyone do it. We asked if they had a telephone book so we could call the police department, they saved us the trouble and called themselves and before we knew it, a police officer was on his way to meet us.
Meanwhile, some local hooligan kids were busy buying soda. They bought 2 twelve packs and put them on their round sled which was tied by a 10 foot rope to their bike and were on their way home. We didn’t think they would make it without shaking up the soda.
By this time, the cop pulled up and asked us what we were up to. We explained the situation, but he didn’t let us stay at the park. We had to ride our bikes another 3 miles out of town the wrong way to a golf course/RV park to stay there for the night. Not what we had hoped for, but it was alright.
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