As so often happens, this leg of the trip took longer than I had planned. It didn't really help that I took the detours from the scenic route - I'm sure I'd have gotten to New Haven before 3:30 in the afternoon had I take I-57 instead of IL-49, taking detours to see towns like Rielly and Allerton, and visiting the Lincoln Log Cabin National Historic Site. I stopped, too, in the library in Fairfield, a pleasant small town near the tri-point, to get my final bearings.
The road down to the tri-point is in the floodplain of the two big rivers and wide bends of the Wabash would occasionally come very close to the road. The turn, about 9 gravel miles south of New Haven, was onto Calico Road, which seemed to lead nowhere but into endless soybean fields. To most folks, that's all it does do - but this daring adventurer knew there was a more interesting prize at the end of the road: a tri-point!
Fairfield, IL
