yay off day in Pontiac Illinois. sleeping in, getting breakfast in town...twice, getting a haircut, chilling out, visiting museums/walking around/talking with people/locals, making postcards, writing them, send me your addresses since i don't have any of them duhhhh, mailing stuff home, chillinnnnnnn, bike maintenance, etc. nice chill day.
apparently a really bad hurricane went through pontiac in 1940 or so, wiped out a big factory and all of the cars outside...also four jailguards were murdered sometime in the 70s or 80s. caterpillar (equipment company) has a factory here. the bars on mill street are sketchy because troublemakers hang out there for lack of other things to do. there are a lot of rt 66 murals in town, installed last year when a ton of artists came in for three days of painting, there's a museum about that, shoutout to eclips haircut place just off of madison street for giving me a discount on my haircut becuase they thought bike and build was cool (because it rocks!), there's a pretty cool war museum near the rt 66 museum (learned that north vietnamese propaganda during the 60s tried to rally black soldiers to turn against the us because of the civil rights movement riots - interesting), umm...yea not sure what else i learned today. this was such a needed break. appletree restaurant/diner has waaaaaayyyyy better food than delongs and really reasonably priced, i'm a fan.
yayyyyy lazy dayyyyssssss
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