*THU SEP 04* *Organic Farm, Elburn, to Blackwell Forest Campground, Wheaton, IL* Ed was cooking pancakes for breakfast again. This time they weren’t gritty. At Circle-up John Abbe began the birthday song so the March would celebrate my birthday: *“Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to me. Every day we are born, and every day we are free.*” It’s a different version than the classical birthday song and the tune is different. I now have two birthday songs to use. As we finished Circle-up it began to rain. I got on my bike and rode all morning in rain—I got my birthday shower! I phoned Doug, the Gear truck driver. He’d gotten permission to enter the campsite, left the solar trailer, and went to find a place that had WiFi to use his computer. Izzy arrived later and we scouted out the campsites 1-6. There didn’t seem to be a good place to set up the Taj Mahal tent. He decided he'd sleep in the amphitheater that was ½ mile away. I put up my tent and threw all my sleeping gear inside. It was the first time I’d used it in 2 or 3 months. The River Prairie Sierra Club treated us to dinner at the amphitheater. Dinner was a social occasion so it was dusk when we left the amphitheater. The mosquitoes were thick. I went into my tent, zipped the door shut, and spent some time setting up my bedroll. Some of the Marchers lit a campfire in one of the campsites. There was a slight breeze so the smoke drifted. I guessed that if I sat in the draft of smoke the mosquitoes would not be bad, but I wasn’t ready to sit in the smoke. I went to bed in my tent. -- Peace, David