J.P. Visits Northern Illinois!

I, Rebecca Boudin, traveled to my hometown of Byron, Illinois with my boyfriend Ian and was fortunate enough to have J.P. tag along! A few miles before we got to Byron, we stopped at Lowden State Park, which is just outside the town of Oregon. I thought J.P. might like to get an up close and personal view of the park's famous Black Hawk Statue. As you can see from the picture, it was huge! It is on the edge of a 77 foot bluff that overlooks the Rock River. What you cannot see from the picture is that we had to fight off massive amounts of ladybugs to get a picture this close! That was probably J.P.'s least favorite part of this trip and I don't blame him!

The coordinates of the statue are as follows:

Latitude: 42 degrees, 0 minutes, 48.9 seconds

Longitude: -89 degrees, 20 minutes, 7.17 seconds

The total mileage for this trip is 773.5 miles. That means J.P. has broken the 3,000 mile mark and traveled 3,091.5 miles! That's some serious travel time!