Day 16: Streetsboro, OH to Elgin, ILJun 24, 2008
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Farm in northwest Ohio, along I80/90
And another, between Kinsgway and Elmore, OH
Ohio field with woods (copse)
| Got a reasonably early start for our first day back on the road in a week, heading through northwest Ohio and Indiana to just west of Chicago, Illinois. The weather was pleasant and the scenery rural and green (though still pretty flat). One feature of the Ohio fields are many plots of woodland, or copses to the English. If there had been hedgerows between the fields, it would have looked very much like parts of England. Most of the day’s trip was on the Interstates 80 and 90 tollways, which have very nice service areas, complete with fast food vendors, gift shops, spacious eating areas and gasoline. The worst part of the day was getting through Chicago. There’s really no easy way around it, but at least on the tollway, there are fewer big trucks (English read lorries). We ended the day in Elgin, IL, on the west side of greater Chicago. Looking for a place for dinner, we found a charming town, West Dundee, near Elgin. (And of course, didn’t have the camera.) The town has maintained its nineteenth-century look but is spoiled by the five-lane high-speed highway which was once the old “main street” (or high street). After dinner at the Village Squire restaurant, we enjoyed a stroll along the Fox River, which was very high, obviously still swollen from the recent flooding in this part of the country. (By the way, we do NOT recommend the Days Inn in Elgin. This was our first experience with Days Inn and we’re not likely to try them again. Shabby, smelly and with mostly non-functioning bathroom fixtures – yuck.) |
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