We woke up early after a comfy nights rest and enjoyed some fruit salad, hot cocoa and cinnamon raisin bagels for breakfast. After talking with Cliff for a while, we got ready to go in our nice clean cycling clothes and packed our bags. Cliff decided he would ride with us for a little while to get us off in the right direction. Boy was it nice to have someone else to talk to while we rode! We spent the morning riding down country roads that had virtually no traffic.He rode with us all the way to Paw Paw, which was about 25 miles from Somonauk. We said our goodbyes and headed our separate ways. Hopefully Cliff and Sue will be able to meet us somewhere on our tour to ride with us so we can see them again. For a good portion of the day it was overcast, and it looked like there was rain heading our way. We rode for about 17 more miles before stopping for lunch in Amboy. I was getting cramps, so we got a half gallon of ice cream to split (because that always seems to help that kind of thing!). Before leaving town we stopped at Subway for a while to look at the map and get out of the sprinkles for a few minutes. Luckily the rain didn't last very long, so we hit the road again heading for Dixon. With the wind at our backs, we made it there relatively quickly. Upon arriving, we learned that Dixon was the hometown of President Ronald Regan! We found another McDonald's where we used the internet for a few minutes before proceeding to go to Subway to use one of the gift cards Grammy gave us. After having a yummy sub for dinner, we headed out of town (we thought about camping in one of the parks in town, but it was a very busy area, so we decided against it). When we reached the edge of town, we found a Masonic Lodge that we decided to set up camp behind. Since we took a little bit of a lighter day today, we made camp early, around 5:30. Once we had the tent all set up, I began to catch up on my blogs, since I hadn't written yesterday's yet. We had a very relaxing evening and plan to take a very light day tomorrow as sort of a rest day to give our bodies a break. We lucked out again with weather, so hopefully it won't rain on us tomorrow as we will head towards Mt. Carroll to another Warm Showers host. We have grow to really love staying with Warm Showers hosts; it is always so nice to meet new people who share similar interests and to hear their stories, that is one of my favorite parts of our bicycle touring adventures! We went 58.95 miles today.
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