A drive through Illiana

We were a bit bored on Sunday and decided to go for a drive. We headed north-west up the 52. There were not many cars out and it was a great drive. Wow, that land is flat! All corn fields and soy fields. No mountains, hills or trees. Zoom in on the map and see all the rectangular fields! The green line is the state line.

When the road turned north, we decided that we would turn off and go further west into Illinois. Not exactly different from Indiana! The radio station we found called the area Illiana. We headed south for Champagne, but missed the turn off. When we got to the interstate, we decided to head back west and see what Danville had to offer. At this time it was about 4pm. Danville had absolutely nothing to offer. It really was the back of beyond! We couldn't even find a petrol station. Delapidated buildings and factories everywhere, bad streets and sad looking houses. This sums it up quite well.

Eventually we found a petrol station outside of town once the greenery started again.

We made our way back into Indiana and decided to drop in on our friends who have a farm just outside of a little twon called Attica.

They have the three cutest goats: mother and two kids, some sheep, a couple of horses and chickens.

They have a REALLY BIG barn where Adam plays basketball.

The sheep are for lambs for meat, so they get a shearing just to keep them cool. They have these white sheep and some brown sheep with black heads. One really cute one they raised from a tiny lamb that was born in February and they kept it in the bathroom during winter. It follows them around.

So we finally got back to West Lafayette. It was an interesting drive just to see the countryside and confirmed our knowledge that we live in the middle of nowhere surrounded by soy and corn.