Day Two Page Three
Illinois Roadtrip
 The
nice little town of Grafton on SB IL 100. |
 The
excessively cool Mississippi River Road section of IL 100. The
limestone bluffs and the wide river squeeze this road tightly. This is
just south of Grafton. |
 The
River Road follows the bluffs on the left side of the river ahead. The
Mississippi is really wide here, but not nearly at its widest.
|
 Another
view from IL 100 South. |
 Still
southbound on IL 100. Idiots have painted graffiti on the bluffs.
Sad. |
 A
relatively new bridge across the Mississippi on US 67 SB from Alton to
Missouri. |
 More
bridge. |
 After
a quick "uee," here's look at Alton from NB US 67 in Missouri. |
 Highway
67 is pretty wide in these parts of the Show-Me State. |
 Okay,
skip ahead a few hours, and you have me on the National Road somewhere near
the Bond/Madison county line. |
 Unfortunately,
it turned into the National Frontage Road for I-70. This is WB. |
 But
it gets better and goes by Highland, where it joins US 40, IL 143, and IL
160. |
 And
later it crosses and hooks up with IL 162. |
 But
I went on to Collinsville and south on IL 159 to see... |
 ...the
world's largest bottle of CATSUP!!! Every town has something special
in Illinois. |
 IL
159 crosses IL 161 in Belleville. |
Warning: the following pictures are all of road related things!
 I've
been told by a gracious someone who stumbled across this site that this is
the traffic circle in downtown Belleville on IL 159 South. |
 Kind
of cool intersection in Belleville because it is the intersection of IL 158
and IL 159. |
 This
is the junction of IL 159 South and IL 15. IL 15 is a freeway from
I-255 to just about here. |
 IL
15 splits off and leaves IL 13 behind and here it is at IL 156 near New
Athens I believe. |
 IL
13 EB heading into the town of Coulterville, where it meets IL 153. |
 And
on the outskirts of Pinckneyville, IL 13 joins IL 154 for a mile or two. |
 IL
13 and IL 154 EB cross IL 127 in Pinckneyville. IL 154 continues ahead
eventually to I-57 while IL 13 turns south with IL 127 to Carbondale. |
 Here's
IL 13 and IL 127 at IL western terminus in the middle of nowhere. IL
152 is only 7 miles long and heads east from here to Du Quoin. |
 Now
we're in Murphysboro, which is about 7 miles west of the college town of
Carbondale. IL 13 turns to the left at IL 149 and IL 127 turns right a
block and then continues south. |
That's all for Day Two!