Traveling North

 Leaving TN was easy driving.

  The roads were good and traffic though heavy was moving very smoothly.  After leaving TN the road became VERY bumpy and had lots of rough areas(pot holes).  Getting to the Cadiz area, there was considerable construction with about 12 miles of one lane traffic.  After Cadiz everything smoothed out considerably and then 3 miles from the Ohio river the road went to single lane and there was a lot of traffic fighting for one space in front of the other.  This was just a sign of things to come for the next 20 miles.

From the time we arrived in IL we experienced  ROUGH roads with one lane closed at 3 mile intervals.  Onward toward LaSalle, IL the road improved after the first 150 miles. Traffic was about as you would expect for mid summer post COVID.  Most drivers were considerate of the others.  There was a trailer that passed us that had a painting of the vehicle inside on the back.  This was almost 3 dimensionable. 

I don't think that neither Jan nor I have ever seen so much corn.  Both sides of the road, as far as the eye could see.

When we pulled into our campground for the night I experienced a deja vous.  We had camped there several years ago and didn't know it when we made the reservations.  In the morning, for our normal walk, we decided to walk one of the roads by the campground.  The road was straight and had almost no traffic.  Again on both sides of the road, there was corn.  I didn't, earlier, check the height of the corn but, this morning I saw that the corn was 9+ feet tall.  As the song in the musical Oklahoma went, "as high as an elephants eye".