Driving The Back Roads of Illinois (A Country Song?) 😛

 

We got on the road about a quarter to ten.  We had a short drive, just over 2 hours, so we weren’t in a hurry. As you can see, we missed the morning rush hour traffic!

Yes, Illinois has oil.  These oil pumps though are so little!  Not as big as the ones in Texas, these probably are about 4 feet tall.  Baby ones?  There wasn’t a whole lot of them, but just enough to say how cute are they?!

Some of the roads we went on have a lot to be desired!

I couldn’t believe how many flags we saw.  God Bless America!

We went through some little towns that had American flags on every pole, maybe 10 flags on one side of a block.  Everyone is flying their flags, showing their solidarity?  God Bless America!

What kind of name for a town is Effingham?  Was it a dirty word at one time? Do we even want to know?

Here is our set up.  It’s so nice and quiet!  We were to close to the freeway before this place so we had lots of road noise.  Not here.  We have heard a train or two, but that is ok with us as long as we aren’t staying right next to the tracks.  It was 66 degrees when we arrived, and low tonight is 45!  Now this is camping! 😂

This campground has a pond stocked with bass, catfish and blue gill.  The camp has everything you need to go fishing, catch and release only.  How awesome is that?

There are trees here called Bald Cypress.  The things in the photo above are called “knees”, which are grown around the tree.  😂 

We are way back there.  Not a whole lot of campers here, which is fine by us.  

We are going out to explore the town tomorrow, and we will be here until Thursday.