No giant ball of string yet

1. A good mileage day but a bust otherwise. I did manage to stay on 50 all day but in this neck of the woods it is mostly a 4 laner/60 mph and shared with truckers as well. There was even an occasional rest area. I tried to visit a couple of roadside attractions but I never found any information on the first one. As far as the second one goes, it was Europe all over again. That is to say, I'm just a little bit off season for visiting some things. I did stop in to visit an Amish Village which was kind of weird actually. It is a cluster of the kind of buildings you'd find on an Amish Farm, I guess. Except for the fact that it was all paved for parking, it sort of looked like the set of Witness, the Harrison Ford film from the 80s. I don't think it was fully open yet but I what I did see looked to be part antique market-part flea market. There's a bakery and restaurant. One of the buildings is called "The Blue Door". It's one of those long low buildings and has three doors on one of the long sides. The center door is blue but oddly enough, that's not the door you enter through. Instead you go along the building to the read door. As you go along you walk past all the antique-y sort of stuff you associate with farms-those large milk jugs, farm implements and stuff like that there. Just as you reach the red door (the one you enter through) there is a sign in the window announcing that this building is a Free WiFi hotspot. Weirdness.
2. Okay, I have no idea where the numbering for these paragraphs are coming from but I experienced computer conundrums most of the evening so I'm not surprised to see them. Anyway, after the Amish Village I just made miles. I finished Indiana and I'm a bit more than halfway through Illinois. I could have made it to the far side of St. Louis but I called it an early day after making the 200 miles. Today's gonna be short mileage tho because I think I'm gonna go or two boxes before I get started and tho' I generally try to avoid the big cities I am gonna go into downtown St. Louis for sightseeing AND urban letterboxing. Wish me luck. I get started in about an hour.