{"id":1120,"date":"2005-03-23T21:26:00","date_gmt":"2005-03-23T21:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ni0l.com\/?p=1120"},"modified":"2005-03-23T21:26:00","modified_gmt":"2005-03-23T21:26:00","slug":"indiana-illinois-iowa-wisconsin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/2005\/03\/23\/indiana-illinois-iowa-wisconsin\/","title":{"rendered":"Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Bend, IN &#8211; La Crosse, WI<br \/>\nDaily Mileage: 396<br \/>\nTotal Mileage: 1999<br \/>\nTotal Number of States Traveled: 15<\/p>\n<p>I started the day swinging by Notre Dame University:<br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ni0l.com\/pictures\/DCAM0064_sm.jpg\"><br \/>\nGo Irish!<\/p>\n<p>Back on I-80&#8230;. heading west.<\/p>\n<p>Driving through Chicago was a total, complete nightmare.<br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ni0l.com\/pictures\/DCAM0066_sm.jpg\"><br \/>\nCrazy, random toll plazas &#8211; crazy, huge roads elevated about a million feet up in the air.<\/p>\n<p>The goal of the day was to go by the Illinois Railway Museum&#8230;<br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ni0l.com\/pictures\/DCAM0067_sm.jpg\"><br \/>\n&#8230; but notice the sign&#8230;<br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ni0l.com\/pictures\/DCAM0067_sign_sm.jpg\"><br \/>\nAfter the disappointment at the Illinois Railroad Museum, I stayed west on US 20 passing the towns of Stockton and Elizabeth, taking a quick break in Galena.<br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ni0l.com\/pictures\/DCAM0072_sm.jpg\"><br \/>\nThere was a tall, wooden observation tower on the side of US 20.  The weather had really cleared and the temperature was up in the low 60s &#8211; very comfortable.<br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ni0l.com\/pictures\/DCAM0071_sm.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ni0l.com\/pictures\/DCAM0078_sm.jpg\"><br \/>\nBack on the road, I headed into Dubuque enjoying a conversation over the radio with one of the local hams.  He told me his son had just returned from Iraq&#8230; spending time up in the Kurdish area and Mosul.<\/p>\n<p>I crossed the Mississippi and entered Dubuque.<br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ni0l.com\/pictures\/DCAM0082_sm.jpg\"><br \/>\nThe original plan was to stop by a Starbucks, hit their WiFi connection and stock up on caffeine.  But my trusty GPS failed to find the Starbucks, so I ended up getting dinner at Applebee&#8217;s&#8230; the first sit down, non-fast food meal I had since leaving Germany.  It was nice to get a real dinner.<\/p>\n<p>Heading northwest out of Dubuque on US 52 through Guttenberg and McGregor paralleling the Mississippi on the west bank, I crossed the river and entered Wisconsin in the town of Prairie du Chien making my way along US 53 to La Crosse.  The Mississippi was beautiful during dusk and I stopped to take a few pictures.<br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ni0l.com\/pictures\/DCAM0083_sm.jpg\"><br \/>\nUnfortunately, I&#8217;ll remember La Crosse for the Best Western I stayed at.  They put me in a smoking room&#8230; which isn&#8217;t that big of a deal.  But this was like sleeping in an ashtray.  It was really, really bad.<\/p>\n<p>Midway Motor Lodge<br \/>\n1835 Rose Street<br \/>\nLa Crosse, WI  54603<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Bend, IN &#8211; La Crosse, WI Daily Mileage: 396 Total Mileage: 1999 Total Number of States Traveled: 15 I started the day swinging by Notre Dame University: Go Irish! Back on I-80&#8230;. heading west. Driving through Chicago was a total, complete nightmare. Crazy, random toll plazas &#8211; crazy, huge roads elevated about a million &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/2005\/03\/23\/indiana-illinois-iowa-wisconsin\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-roadtrip"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9vUOZ-i4","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}