Fri Sep 22 - Mattoon IL to Miamisburg OH

 "Record high temperatures today", the nice lady at the hotel said this morning as we left. Well it was hot today and maybe it was a record, but it was not as hot as yesterday. High temp on Daves bike was 95 deg and no wind. The no wind part was fine because the only thing worse that high temps is a hot side wind to blow you around, adding insult to injury. So not bad. We made it all the way across Indiana today and into Ohio. We got everything from flat corn and soy fields to rolling treed river bottom. Actually kind of pretty. We say a lot more combines working getting the crops harvested. I'll bet they love the hot weather to dry the kernels. I'll bet they love those air conditioned cabs with Blake Shelton blaring on the stereo even better.
We passed a lot of old farms that used to be farms but are now either abandoned or are fixed up as a gentleman's farm with a few horses around. You can sense that some time ago there were dairy farms here but they are all gone now, a time gone by. The corn field is planted right up around the old buildings as the land is worth more growing corn and soy as it is grazing cows. No beef was seen all day, just golden yellow and brown corn and soy.

We got wonderfully lost down a whole host of small, well paved roads, all pretty much headed east, no traffic and 55 mph speed limit. What do we care if we are lost as long as we are headed toward home and moving at 50 mph.
We did miss the two story outhouse (think about it) yesterday in Gays, IL. There is amazing stuff right next to you and you need to do your research or you just drive right by. Mattoon, IL is the place where US Grant took command of his first troops in the Civil War. Terre Haute was the birthplace if the first coca cola bottle. Right now we are just south of Dayton and the Wright brothers have their mark on everything around here. If we had more time..
So we have three days to get home (I have to go back to work). So maybe we hit PA tomorrow..