Oct. 11th. Campbellsville, KY

We left Edwardsville, ILL yesterday morning around 9:30 AM. In keeping with our goal to avoid the interstate system we went south on ILL Rte 4 To Lebonon where we turned east on US 50 driving across the flat fertile farm lands of western ILL these turned to more the rolling but still good farm lands of eastern ILL and western IND. At Loogootee, IND we turned south on US 231 driving through the rolling hills that were sometimes farmed and sometime wooded. Shortly after crossing the Ohio River into Kentucky we turned east on US 60 driving through the fertile river bottom farm lands that turned to wooded rolling hills after leaving the river bottom. At Garfield we turned right onto KY 86 a very narrow two lane road that wound through the hills to Elizabethtown. After crossing I-65 we then drove on KY 210 arriving at Campbellsville around 7PM EST. On the drive across ILL and IND we saw very little harvesting taking place but we did note that about 1/2 of the corn was flat on the ground so when they do start harvest it is going to be at a very slow pace. In southern IND and into Kentucky we did see corn being harvested. There was some soybean harvest taking place all along the route but we also saw many fields that were still completely green.
In the wooded areas the trees are starting to change color with the most color being in Kentucky. In MO and ILL they are expecting a lot of color because they have had a lot of rain this summer.