and a pleasant good morning to y'all guys back on the Lincoln Highway here
check this out a wooden covered bridge a tall one 14:6
I should make this I should make this I don't see a weight limit here so we're
gonna drive right on to this wooden covered bridge Wow
I can already smell the wood like the old wood built through here that is
actually pretty cool actually it fit just fine
okay well mark that off my bucket list that I have driven through a wooden
bridge in the RV let me pull off I want to look at this a little more I'm a big
geek over this kind of stuff because it really intrigues me to see old wooden
structures still working today and it kind of reminds me of the one
that a campervan Kevin showed me there in Georgia except like I said you can
drive an RV through this one so that is pretty cool along with the little
walking trail we can see the river down there actually there's no cars coming so
let's see what we got here even the concrete leading to the bridge
is old and then here's where the wood starts you can see the nails kinda that
are constructed inside here Wow look at all the hay from all the hay trucks
going through here a lot of history in this bridge right here oh there is a car
coming and like I said we are back to Lincoln Highway officially here in the
city of Morrison so just inside Illinois just where I left off from Iowa so uh
have a good day whoa look at Main Street in Morrison
what an interesting little town this this is a really cool Main Street Wow
how about right here go past the fire hydrant there we go see
not blocking the fire hydrant and the yellow stops right there we're good I
cannot begin to tell you how good it feels to be away from a big city once
again I I like the calmer more laid-back back road feel small-town America that's
what I like I'm walking right through Lincoln Highway cuz I want to show you
this cool little mural here with the old garage look and feel and everything okay
they got a red light and I can show you better 24-hour service Lincoln highway
garage gas pumps up the cool mural guys they do have the Morrison Heritage
Museum and on here it says it's free maps and brochures Lincoln Highway
exhibit look at check it out nope only open Friday Saturday and Sunday today's
Wednesday mini park with trees and shade and cool city but let's get back on the
road I want to grab some grub east of here later I think the state of Illinois
is most well known for the home of Lincoln it's on their license plate land
of Lincoln and stuff but there was another president who spent some time
here in Illinois we are in Dixon Illinois and no it's not President Nixon
it's a Ronald Reagan this is actually his boyhood home or one of his boyhood
homes here in Dixon restored pretty much how it looked in 1920 they have a museum
in there which I'm only going to skip because it says photography okay but no
videography well videography is just a bunch of pictures that are all put
together but I'm not gonna get into it and besides I kinda just don't feel like
going into a museum right now but what's this a 1919 Model T Ford in
the garage right there they do have a little statue here of Ronald Reagan
outside one of the homes do you know what's in his hand so in the Plateau
below him it says that Illinois is famous for his production of
agricultural products so it seems only appropriate for him to be in admiring
the kernels of corn in this hand I think that's pretty neat
not gonna get into politics on my channel I am just sharing the boyhood
physical home of President Ronald Reagan those of you that need to say nasty
things about him or a voice an opinion why I'm not gonna get involved with it
but I hey if you want to start a war in the comments below my video have at it
just helps my channel actually I'm not gonna get involved man look how nasty
the RB looks that bug shield just whoo look it's awesome
I want to repaint the windshield wipers too I'm gonna fix the black on there
later next project oh that's cool look at this little archway over here Dixon
Dixon archway neat hey a hundred percent chance of rain today and I haven't
filmed or been outside in the rain once just keep missing it although look at
those dark ominous clouds coming yeah there might possibly be something
interesting to see over here I don't know okay that's different for whatever
reason the city of Dixon has well recreated the Berlin Wall a section of
it with I mean like fake graffiti that's a lot of effort there actually it says
that you seek peace if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and the
Eastern Europe if you seek liberalization come here to this gate
well that's different I'll give you that
Jex man you have done really good today you've been a good little commuter kitty
I'm proud of you man he looks and treats when we get barked okay I'm gonna give
me a high five a low five okay thanks I kinda wish I could just boondock right
here Sofia to be a nice place to spend an evening here it's a a park reservoir
up at there's fish over there public there's a lot of fishermen
job ends so bad this is a presidents Park here and we have a different kind
of Lincoln statue here that's Lincoln right yes what says Lincoln mr. Lincoln
for the first time in full uniform everybody look at that carrying his
sword have not seen one I mean it's kind of a casual uniform but still Lincoln
1832 and then I don't know what we have here there's nothing written on this
building is that plaque to say anything nope it's just empty okay but it's
obviously old can tell by the wood and the concrete plaster but what is it and
who lived here we'll never know it's cool though
you know it's tempting with the Wendy's and McDonald's and Arby's and all the
fast food around here but now I'm gonna stick to my attempt to put money back
into some of these local communities but I want to get on the road a little bit
farther by the way this was really promising with the chef's out front
holding the big pizza there but that's three o'clock on a Wednesday as it is
starting to rain and they're closed well doesn't even say close all the
doors are locked so I tried guys but I can only try so hard sometimes
well I'm parked here in the back of McDonald's right now I'm just gonna wait
till the rain stops cuz it's kind of hit and miss and then there's one more thing
I want to look at here in Rochelle Illinois so I'm gonna grab my lunch I
want to watch some Netflix and hangout sounds good that's yours alright train
lovers this is the mother lode this is a famous intersection of rail tracks here
in Rochelle Illinois they've actually built a little part construction so that
you can look around at what's going on but when I pulled in there was a sign
that said no train horns on the part right there but actually they're like
the very next train Blue is whore in all kinds of ways so down here it looks
normal it's just two tracks but what ends up happening is down here at this
end is the only quad intersection of
railroad in the country where there are literally four different intersections
built in one spot we're gonna check that out right now
say a three engine
wants to play train horn war yeah that's all hey that's a double-decker yeah so
see they clearly do blow their horns I don't know when it wasn't they didn't
but they do now look at that railroad stamps there's a route 66 one
there and of course one more little reminder that we are obviously on
historic Lincoln Highway oh yeah oh and don't forget no train yard would be
complete without a little fire pit for the hobos a hobo train riders
right next to the intersection - they got firewood available if you want to
make a fire that's awesome that's pretty cool that's probably the best part this
entire day is seeing that quad intersection do you guys think I kind of
want to know how they coordinate that because you potentially got eight
different trains all meeting in one spot you count all eight tracks that's crazy
somebody up there is paying attention just like air air traffic control
somebody is monitoring that intersection full-time I guarantee you
and yeah thankfully the visitor center gift shop was open there and I was able
to get a magnet from the railyards how sweet is that put
that guy right up there oh yeah well guys I have decided I am going to
boondock in camp in town there's a Walmart here in Rochelle so this will
give me a nice spot to overnight park and get a fresh start in the morning so
you guys have a good day see you back on Lincoln Highway from
Jackson I my guess and you know what I wonder if anyone has ever honked an
airhorn in an old wooden country bridge oh yeah