Where am I now?

Friday 27th June. Rensselaer to Ashkum.
83.3 Km

Saturday 28th June. Ashkum to Pontiac.

76.5 Km

Sunday 29th June. Pontiac to Wenona.

66.6 Km

Monday 30th June. (Today) Wenona to Kewanee.

102 Km.

I have to say how I have come to appreciate the strength of the West wind as I pedal this part of the mid-west. ....and how lovely that I'm travelling west!!!! Its strong, incessant, persistant in fact I've exhausted my repetoir of expletives in trying to describe it!

As I pulled into Pontiac on Saturday I could see my motel 2km in the distance. I was in my lowest gear, (a gear saved for the steepest hills, but I was on the flat), pushing into the strongest wind hitting me directly from the front. I was travelling at 7km per hour so took around 15 minutes to do the two K's! Grrrrr.

Maybe it's the regularity of this wind that allowed me to count over 100 large wind turbines as I travelled today!

However my Saturday experience was cheered up by meeting the "East Peoria Express 14 and under Softball team" outfit. The Mom and Dads were relaxing having a Barbeque outside the Motel to celebrate their daughters' success and hopefully final success on Sunday. I was able to join them for beer and Brats. (I did hand out lots of Aussie Koalas!)