As I often do, I let DeLorme plot the initial route then tweaked it to
suit. I was a little surprised when I saw the route reaching the Canadian
border on US-52. I've driven this highway, which goes through Cincinnati,
as far west as Dixon, Illinois, and this seemed the perfect opportunity to
cover its most western portion. I plotted a path that hurried to Dixon
then followed US-52 to Canada. The first picture was taken in Mendota,
Illinois, where I first moved onto US-52. Between there and near Dixon I
drove over road I originally covered in 2010 while driving eastward. Near
Dixon, the road became even more familiar as it joined IL-38 and what was
once the Lincoln Highway. I left Dixon on new-to-me US-52 and that's when
I consider the trip to have actually started. Everything before was just
staging.
My reason for being in Dixon in 2010 was to attend my first Lincoln
Highway Association National Conference. That was the start of a streak
that's ending essentially as I type because I am missing the June 13-17
conference in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, to make this trip.
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