Burlington to Muscatine, IA -- 61 miles

From the hotel we crossed over the same bridge we crossed yesterday back over to the Illinois side. (no we do not get margaritas tonight because we finished in the same state that we started...it is only when we finish in a different state that we have margaritas.)
Again MORE corn fields! The only point of interest was a covered bridge.




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I did pass an interesting sign...could this mean that there could be more than 40 farms?




Anyway I rode as fast as my legs could pedal to beat the heat. It starts getting hot here around 1pm. I think it was 93 or 95 and very humid! I made it in to Muscatine exactly at 1pm. Muscatine is know as the pearl of the Mississippi. They have a button museum here that I would have liked to see but it is closed, of course. Burlington did have a pearl button factory at one time but is no longer there.

I understand that there is another criterium taking place here today. As much as I would like to see it, it is just too hot to stand out there to watch.