We decided to head to another park.  While at Lowden we met a lady that refurbished a ‘73 VW campervan.  It looked pretty snazzy.  I guess it doesn’t handle interstate speeds real well so she has been keeping to the highways and side roads.  She felt she was seeing the ‘real’ Illinois that way.  It convinced me to take one of those highways down to another park and see some of it, too.  I think I didn’t take a particularly scenic route, though and we saw mostly corn.  We took it slow, and that made it a more relaxing drive than the one out to Lowden.

  Even though we got into Shabbona around 3, we couldn’t find the camp host to register a site until almost 5 so we got set up kinda late.  We went for a hike that would have been a 5+ mile loop but since we got started late and I forgot the Walnut bag, we turned around at 1.8 miles.  (the Walnut bag in this context is our orange Kelty hiking pack that I put Walnut in when he gets too tired to keep hiking)

  Shabbona is nice enough, but the rate for a site on Sunday night kinda turned me off (we do have electricity tonight though).  The sites where I am, Teal Bay, feel fairly private.  Of course, the whole place feels that way tonight.  I think there are 6 other sites in use out of 60.  I’m gonna go see if I scrounged enough dry wood to make smores.