I expected that my one appointment on Monday would take five or six hours as I had lots and lots of fabric to show a customer who had not seen me in more than one year. I did not expect that the weather on this late October day in the middle of Illinois would be quite so spectacular. I left my appointment in Pekin after 3:00PM, stopped at a Subway for a quick lunch and drove to my hotel in Morton. I quickly changed clothes and I hiked to Peoria crossing the Illinois River. And then I hiked back. And when this hike was over, I had logged 18.5 miles. That was a serious Monday hike.
