On U.S. 24 near Peoria, Ill., the steady tailwind rattled through the browning cornstalks. Monarch butterflies gingerly dared to cross the road. A man sitting atop his lawn mower smiled and tipped his baseball cap as they passed. The, er, breathtaking aroma of hog farms came and went. She pointed to a mailbox fashioned from pipes in the shape of the Wizard of Oz's Tin Woodsman.
People are so talented.
We would never see such things from a car. Eureka, the college home of President Ronald Reagan, was Saturday's first rest stop. The building is the county's Democratic Party headquarters. Suddenly, this tiny, single cloud came out and wham, parked itself right in front of the sun. It stayed there about two hours.