We got up early on Sunday for the longest driving portion of the trip, Point A: Chicago to Point B: Gothenburg, NE.
Upon leaving Len's apartment and finding the interstate again, we passed through the New Seoul of Chicago, so apartently there is a healthy Korean-American population in Chicago.
But once we left Chicago, we realized the rest of Illinois was way less interesting. It was amplified by the fact it was raining constantly:
But they had what in my mind is the ideal farm in western Illinois:
And after awhile we crossed the Mississippi River. It was nothing like what I had envisioned after reading Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn. I guess the Mississippi gets better in the South:
And on the other side, lay Iowa and its fields of opportunities!!!
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