What a day!

Thursday, July 01, 2004

This has been a crazy day and that's just part one. Work was crazy, tyical BS (ya know same sh**, different day type things). I took an extra long lunch to go to Illinois and buy some lottery tickets.
This turned into a nice drive in the country. On the way over, I took a ferry across the Mississippi and Illinois rivers. I drove through Alton and across the bridge to come back. I figure that ended up being about 30 miles out of my way. In the future, I will take the ferry again--it is worth the $6.50 fare to save the 1/2 hour or so.
The "river road" between Grafton and Alton was practically desserted. I didn't see any other cars. It was relaxing to have the river to my right and open road to my front and back. I didn't even see a barge until I was almost to Alton. If the river wasn't on my right I might have thought I was heading away from Alton.
I forgot how nice Grafton is--it would make a nice getaway without having to go too far away. Lots of cute shops that I would have loved to stop in if I had not run a few errands before I set out for Illinois.
I took Hwy 94 to the Grafton ferry. It is amazing that at one point you can have a strip of fast foods and Waffle Houses and then you are in the middle of farmland.
Saw lotsa corn. Tall corn. Will have to go back to the farm tomorrow so that I can have corn for the weekend.
Overall, nice lunch hour(s). It would be nice to do more often--if gasoline wasn't almost $2.00 an hour.
posted by suzyjax on 7/01/2004 02:13:00 PM > 0 comments

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