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#ANCA Trip Part 1

Well this was the start of our 7 day trip to Townsend, TN. We are staying in a 5 bedroom cabin that is located in the Great Smoky Mountains. More on that tomorrow! Today was just the kick start to the trip with a stop at the Rock Springs Nature Center located in Decatur, IL. Great place to spend the day! They have a 2nd story bird viewing area so you are at the same eye level with the birds! Also there are 9 hiking trails that you can take a simple 15 to 20 minutes stroll or an hour long hike.Here is a link to the website

http://www.maconcountyconservation.org/rocksprings.php

(Our Expedition packed with everything you could need on a road trip!)

The most exciting thing for the day was the Sushi making lesson that I got from our family friend. I had never even attempted to make Sushi before so this was an experience for me! It was so much fun! Did you know why the rice tastes so darn good? They add sugar to it! Yes that’s right SUGAR! I got to do everything from helping make the rice to chopping all of the vegetables. That is the hard part getting everything lined up so all you have to do is spread the rice and fill the roll with anything! I got to create a few rolls and we also used some recipes that we already had. Well I have to say everything was amazing! When we were finally done we had made a total of 11 rolls. This is something that I will definitely be doing again at home. I tried to take as many pictures as possible of the whole process so you can get an idea of what it takes to make just one roll.

Peace Love and Tweeting -Tor

Chevy Sonic

Well I am finally getting around to writing about my weekend events!

One of the coolest things I got to do was go to ChevyPalooza on Friday night. It was an event that was tied into Lollapalooza. Also it was premiering the new Chevy Sonic and great budget friendly car. Starting at around $14,000 and it gets 40MPG.

Middle of NOWHERE

(On my way)

(I had to stop and get some road snacks too! And I took a chance on a lottery ticket! I only won $1.)

So it might not have been the exact middle of nowhere but it felt like it to me. And might I add it was FUNNNNN. I decided to take a drive today, left my house and started West on IL-52. For those of you that don’t know I live in Joliet, IL a large suburb of Chicago, IL. Its a pretty large city but sometimes it feels like there is nothing to do. We are having a HUGE heat wave so the only things to do today these days are either beg, borrow or steal someones pool. I decided to take my car with the AC blasting and go on an adventure to see what was out there. Well I am happy to report I found where they are hiding all of the corn … and LOTS of it!

There was also an interesting plane that was flying quite low across all the fields.

So by this point you can tell the heat has gotten to me but it was a fun little day trip and I got to see some pretty cool farms. Until next time!

-Peace, Love and Tweeting!