Tuesday, August 05, 2008
Chester to Carbondale, Illinois...55 miles
Mostly flat ride today. Almost seems like a day off. Carbondale, home of Illinois Southern University, has 3 bicycle shops, 2 across the street from each other and one down the block. Naturally, we had to buy some stuff that we hope we won’t need like spare tires and tubes. Since we are getting up early to beat the heat I bought a new front light. Speaking of beating the heat, there is plenty of it around here to beat. Tomorrow we plan to get up at 5:00 AM or as they say dark thirty. It’ll be a 70 miles plus day so keep your fingers crossed.
When Uncle Bill, Jannie and I rode to Missoula we crossed the bridge in Chester. Uncle Bill was so freaked out about the two lane bridge that he would NOT stop to see the Popeye statue pictured here on the right. I finally got to see the biggest Popeye statue in the world.....ho hum.
