July 6, 2020 Still I am still in Goodfield, Illinois and just finished a great ride with Peggy and Denny T. and their bike buddy Dirk. We went over rolling hills and past corn and soybean fields. Dirk said the corn is starting to curl, they are experiencing a drought here. Wow, seven inches of rain and flooding in Vienna, Illinois and a drought here. He said if it doesn't rain in the next week or so the farmers would have to cut the corn for silage . We entered the cute town of Eureka. We roamed some streets and ended up at this memorial on the campus of the college. Denny said his dad attended this college too. We saw one building that was marked 1894. I think the old iron peice in the picture below which is built right into the brick wall, was holding on a downspout. Now a new downspout sits right next to it. We went by the corner where Denny and Peggy had their big tandem accident. She broke her hip and her back and her collar bone. Den
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