Cathy and Tim Mueller in Angels Camp: Day 18

Last night severe storms lit up the sky and rumbled our hotel for a couple hours. The winds were also ferocious, beating the rain against the window. This morning, the hotel gal told us just how bad the storm was; doing major damage to a couple buildings in town! Yikes!
We hit the road today around 7:30, swerving around the debris on the road, mainly branches of various sizes. The weather started off overcast and cool yet dry. After crossing the river to IL, we road along the curvy river road to Nauvoo. This wonderful historic place, from the 1840 period, had more than 40 sites restored from the earliest Mormons.

We would have liked to explore this settlement, but we were a bit concerned about the changing weather.
We returned to the road with our goal to get to the next town before the storm.

The wind picked up and the wall of clouds got darker. We continued peddling, and within the hour we arrived at the next town, dry and feeling much more comfortable. The weather system broke up and the clouds dispersed!
Another safe bridge crossing brought us back to Iowa. We rolled into Burlington IA just before noon. We road around the historic downtown, stopping for at a busy diner for lunch.

Since we had time and the sky was still looking non- threatening, we decided our bikes needed a little TLC. Our hotel supplied us with rags and mini buckets, we added the elbow grease. We needed to rotate our tires, as our rear tires are wearing much faster than our front tire.