It's a Lincoln Thing-- Day 2

Day two at the Lincoln Highway Association's annual conference was a long one with plenty of storms and a long bus trip.

We left Dixon in a steady rain and took I-88 to I-355 to I-55 to Joliet and visited the Joliet History Museum, the new Lincoln Highway picnic shelter and an 1920s automobile dealership in Aurora where we had lunch. It continued raining until we left the Joliet museum.

Then, it was off to Dekalb where we toured the old Egyptian Theater and on to Franklin Grove where we went into the Lincoln Highway National Headquarters.

Of course, we also saw many other interesting sites along the way, but didn't stop.

A huge storm struck between Ashton and Franklin Grove with winds really bouncing the bus around.

Back in Dixon, Denny and I had drinks and eats at O'Leary's Irish Pub and went to the Lincoln Highway art show at the Loveland Community Center and had a long talk with Russel who has more Lincoln Highway postcards than probably anybody in the world. And, for that matter, lots of cards of many, many, many different roads. He has also "clinched" many roads, which means driving the whole length, including US-421 which has a southern terminus near my old younger-days stomping grounds, Carolina Beach and Fort Fisher, North Carolina.

Sure Worn Out After Today. --RoadDog


No Pun Intended: Any woman can have the body of a 21-year-old, as long as she buys him a couple drinks first.