Rural Manhattan

Pontiac Illinois, voted the best small town in the Midwest. Well I have been there and I can vouch that it is small and it may be one of the best but really I have no clue and not too much comparison. I mean they do have three, count em, three swinging bridges. But even before that we had to travel through what I like to call rural Manhattan. Chronologically numbered streets and avenues in a grid like formation throughout endless cornfields. I know this sounds like a lot of fun, and it was for the first 10 miles, until all the roads turned to gravel and we felt like bikers of the corn. We rode for as long as we could on the gravel, but because we were going about 10 mph we decided something needed to change, so we asked some farmers where the nearest interstate was and we made it to Pontiac much faster. In Pontiac we were welcomed with a statue of Abe and the Route 66 museum. What more is there really?