Our Progress

We made it as far as Morris, IL last evening. We still have at least 850 miles to go, but some of the routes we received involve traveling secondary roads and the speed limit in Indiana for OD is 45 mph. We sat last night with our IL permit and a map, trying to determine if the area they described for curfew applied to our route. We decided we would not have to stop for the curfew in Chicago, which was a great relief, if not we would have needed to wait until after 9:30 to get through that part of the state.

Its bitterly cold here, only 12 degrees, but it feels much colder than that. At least the sky is clear and there isnt any threat of snow today.

We both know we have to keep a steady pace today, every minute of daylight counts. We fueled this morning before we left and we should be could to go until we have to stop at sunset today.

We are both a little anxious about our first scale, or weigh station in IL. We made it through the scales in WI without having to stop, so we lucked out there. We get to the sign for the weigh station.........the light is lit up "CLOSED'. We both breathe a sigh of relief. We're both sure we are following the permit as its written, we just know better than to tempt fate.

Our Illinois permit has routed us across secondary roads and through towns where we seem to be a red traffic light magnet today, its been very slow going indeed, and not going to change any time soon. We just made it through a weigh station with no problem.

We will lose an hour in Indiana by crossing over into Eastern time, so that is going to hurt us a little too.

But we've got a beautiful sunrise, a nice clear day and we're making our way east as best we can!