We have deviated from the Trans Am path because of a lack of hotels to sleep in over the next few hundred km's and we don't do camping. There has to be some benefits from getting older. This was a gentle 85km ride in the back blocks of southern Illinois that Rodney managed to successfully guide us through. Beautiful green countryside with lakes and dams everywhere. All was going "swimmingly" until the last 10km when the heavens opened up on us. But torrential rain when the temperature hovers in the 70's isn't so bad except we couldn't see much. Illinois then decided to give us a cycle path to finish on and all was good. Pity we wasted our time on washing yesterday. Wortho gave this a 3 because of the rain. The rest of us gave it a 7 despite the rain. You won't shrink Wortho.
Tomorrow another state (try guessing again you geographically challenged readers)