We made a quick exit, backtracking only a couple of hours to make it into new territory. The landscape had begun to flatten out, and there were many silos.
INDIANA
After a stop for gas, the only planned stop in Indiana was lunch at a place known as the "traders point creamery" for lunch. We had a tip that they served the tastiest chocolate milk in the country. We went up in their modern-decorated barn loft and ordered a burger of grass-fed beef served with cheese from the creamery, and mac and creamery cheese mixed with chicken and thick bacon. It was all great, especially the chocolate milk, which the waitress was kind enough to top off for us until we left. We bought some more milk to go, and are waiting for the perfect time to open it up.
Back in the car, about an hour north of the stop we passed through the first wind farm either of us had ever seen. There were 200-foot tall propeller towers in all directions on both sides of the highway, extending all the way to the horizon- it appeared to be an alien landing site. Completely surreal. As Thoreau famously wrote in Walden "dude that was fookin crazy."
ILLINOIS
After scrambling to find change to pay the inbound tolls, we made it into chicago at about 4pm. Alex met us out front of our hotel, The River Hotel, right downtown on the water. We checked into our room which was tiny, but it had two twin beds and a shower so we were set. After we got settled we started to plan our night.
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