I went to the Iron Butt 2009 Checkpoint on Wednesday August 26 Scoring opened at 5 pm
at the Pheasant Run Resort in St Charles Illinois. I left home at 8 am on Wed and got caught in rain 50 miles from St charles. (sometimes heavy) and got there kinda wet. Glad I had a waterproof jacket on. My gloves were soaked and upon taking them off my hands were black from the dye or ink. I then hung around the iron butt people and watched them come in and they had some cool stuff. I took a bunch of pictures. I went to bed around 10 pm and was asleep by 1030pm. I then woke up at 420 am and looked out the hotel room door to a steady rain. I looked at the news on tv and saw it was supposed to rain all day so I decided to head for home and left at 5am.It of course was dark then and I couldnt see very well with the rain. I then was following a car along west 90 and he went up a off ramp and followed him because I was following his tail lamps. That excursion took me 15 miles out of the way as there was no west bound on ramp nearby. I then found my way back to 90 and continued home. I then was making good time and decided to take interstate 94 north when I was getting close to Lacrosse. I had always taken 90 west to rochester but thought this would be cool to try. I think it was a little further but it had waaay better scenery. I would recomend this way for anyone who has a little more time to spare. I posted a few on my flicker acount.
