Howdy Neighbo (u) r

One of the nicest things about blogging is picking up readers around the world. I even have one in Dubai who is hoping to move over to the Naperville/Plainfield area. She's been able to find out a lot about Naperville from the blog of course, but to show how seriously I take this, yesterday we drove out to neighbouring Plainfield to take some photos for her. I thought you might like to see them too.
Illinois is the U.S's prairie land. The state is larger than the whole of the UK. Its flat plains stretch for hundreds of miles, but of course towns have been built on it from the middle of the 19th century. Plainfield is really what happened when Naperville spread too far. Eventually someone said: "Enough of this sprawling metropolis, we'll build a new town right next door!" Although the two towns do actually meet, Naperville is so vast, it's quite a distance from the little village of Plainfield and the centre of its more established neighbour.
So if you'd like to have a look around Plainfield, take a look at my next entry.