End to the summer vacation....aka Chicago...

Well today was the day we packed up our things and said goodbye to Chicago. The morning was pretty stressful as we might have gotten up a bit too late. We were staying in downtown Chicago with my (Kelly) parents so we had to get the train back to Ben's house to get our bikes and the rest of our gear. If we would have gotten up a bit earlier we could have got an earlier train and not had to rushed so much... Because, once we got to Ben's we had 25 min to pack our things and bike 3 miles back to the train station. The reason we had to get back to the train station is becuase we were taking the train out of the cities instead of having to hit so much traffic and not so nice roads. Luckily we made it to the train station with 1 min to waste. Sadly, it was a quick goodbye to my parents. Once on the train we had a nice ride back to the city where we then had to go 4 blocks to the other train station and get on another train to Clear Lake. Once we got off in Clear Lake we rode about 15-20 miles to our camp site in Woodstock, Illinois. The ride was not a pretty one. It was dark as night and the wind was blowing very hard, hard enough to blow me off the road a few times. Then the temps dropped and the rain came in heavy sheets with some hail, which I must say hurt the arms a bit. But we toughed it out and arrived at our campsite. Once we settled in, we headed into the historic downtown of Woodstock, which I might add was very charming. There we ate some grub and headed to the library to look up our route and lodging options for the next day or so. We found out there was not too much on our way and remembered relatives my dad talked about lived in Janesville, Wisconsin. So that was the day and it was time to call it quits! Thanks everyone for reading! If you know of any place we can stay between Janesville and Woodbury off of hwy 14 and hwy 61 let us know, it would be a great help!!!