Day ONE

Day one,

Day one started a little slow. I forgot my belt and we had to swing past home after breakfast. After that it was onward to Glennwood Il. The site of Marshall (Major) Taylor. Most people have never heard of him, I recommend you Wiki him. In short, he was the 1st WORLD famous professional athlete. Not just US known, world know. He was a Black cyclist, and very unbeatable. He was he son of slaves and in 1901 made about 250,000!! That’s 1901 money!! Cycling was once a HUGE thing, to race and to beat on.
After that we headed out of the state. The Illinois/Indiana border sucks, and was the only traffic we came across in eight hours of driving. I’ve never really been to Indiana, I think I don’t really like it either.
There were only two highlights after Major Taylor. The first was driving right through Cleveland, which we plan to come back to on the way home. The second was the FIREWORKS AND KARATE SUPER STORE we passed.