600 Not Speaking "IL"…
(Weaver, IL)
Our fastest "drop-off" ever, while dashing through Illinois along I-70!

Sorry about this "quickie". On our rush to the mountains, we really didn't have time to find some place better to hide. Not that we had ever intended to plant a box in every state, like some people seem to want to do. We had already visited all 50 states years before letterboxing, and several times since, so that was definitely not a priority for us. However, after planting well over 500 boxes in and around our "more usual stomping grounds" and in getting down to just a few states that we hadn't left a box in over the years, we figured we might as well at least "tokenly" try to finish them all off again "stampwise" if we ever got the chance...

Anyway, to find this little "travelin' light", pull into the Cumberland Rest Area westbound around mile marker 150 off I-70 and, on the north side of the building, locate the brick drinking water fountain, which old-timey Rhode Islanders call a "bubbler". From it, take 7 steps at 130* and look in the westside corner of the pavement junction in front of the single gray door. Tucked in that corner behind a greenish 2-inch oval stone should be a 1-inch half pink stone with the state abbreviation on its backside. Hope it lasts at least a little while, since there didn't seem to be much else we could do along I-70 in IL this time through!

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