{"id":1641,"date":"2023-07-02T13:54:44","date_gmt":"2023-07-02T18:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mvermeulen.org\/gone2look4america\/?p=1641"},"modified":"2023-07-02T14:52:24","modified_gmt":"2023-07-02T19:52:24","slug":"wilmington-riding-in-the-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mvermeulen.org\/gone2look4america\/2023\/07\/02\/wilmington-riding-in-the-rain\/","title":{"rendered":"Wilmington, riding in the rain"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Today it stayed almost dry for the first 35 miles. However, I had some heavier rain the last 10 miles and still got soaked. It was tough to time this one with scattered showers forecast until 5pm<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I continued to follow the adventure cycling route as it passed small towns of Odell, Dwight, Gardner and Braceville. These towns had their Route 66 signs out. However I didn’t stop as much since I figured if it wasn’t raining I wanted to take advantage to keep moving and if it was raining I wanted to keep going.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Early morning starting out. Motels I stay at are frequently close to the interstate so the first first thing was to ride to town along the strip. Pontiac has ~10,000 residents so also some city streets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Back to the frontage road and past an old building.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Historic gas station with on the far left an electric vehicle charger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Welcome to Dwight <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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TV shop with a Zenith sign<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Casey’s is a popular brand of convenience store in Illinois (more so than Indiana or earlier). It was just starting to rain, stopped and then poured much more after that. This was a good stop to get my rain gear out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Otherwise not as much in riding today. I now get out the maps for Chicago. If I follow the Adventure Cycling route, it is 84 miles and two days but that has some extra zig zags so trying to look for a shorter route.<\/p>\n\n\n

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