Dave Brown Tours Illinois on His Cross-Country Trek

Editors Note: This is a weekly column following Collegeville’s Dave Brown, who is walking across America in memory of his late wife, Joan, and to raise money for Ovarian Cancer. To donate, click here.

Dave Brown crossed over from Indiana into Illinois this week in pleasant, he blogged.

Brown enjoyed a bit of celebrity as he walked this week - after doing several interviews, a number of cars honked as they passed by him on the road, and many residents stopped to give him drinks, food, and to cheer him on.

The following day, he took in a scenic trek – turkey vultures, a crawdad, grain silos – Brown even got a tour of the Littlejohn Grain Inc.

Brown also had his first corndog of the walk, he noted.

“I almost always packed my lunch when at Vanguard,” Brown said.  “One time they had corn dogs. I told Joan I had a gourmet lunch and she immediately knew I had corn dogs. I could never pull anything over on her.”