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Alexis Park Inn & Suites
  1165 S. Riverside Drive
   Iowa City, Iowa  52246
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Tuesday -- to Rantoul

Our plan was to either fly to Mackinac Island, at the top of the Great Lakes, or to fly to St. Louis, to spend a day at the Six Flags theme park.   The weather would decide our course.

Neither plan worked.  By the time we got off work Tuesday night, the weather was bad in *both* directions, so we defaulted to "Plan C", which amounted to "let's see how far east we can get before running out of daylight.   We didn't make it far -- only to Rantoul, Illinois, before storms forced us to land for the night.  Here are a few pictures from that short flight:

Preflighting before the journey begins...

And the storms that forced us to land in Illinois...