world's largest corn maze

One of the best parts about having grown up in northern Illinois was its vast farm land. Down the street from my parents house there's a farm stand, never really manned, full of fresh vegetation with a wooden box and the prices for each good located next to it. Its just assumed that you'll pay for whatever you take. The honor system isn't implicated much these days, as most people are total assholes, but there's still a good sense of trust where I grew up.

Aside from that, farmers must find other ways to make money on the account that our economy sucks and well, farmers seem to always get the shit end of the stick. It totally blows. Donate to Farm Aid or something. Anyway, also not far from my home town of Crystal Lake is the town Spring Grove. It's a small town located in the northeastern corner of McHenry Country, right near the Wisconsin border. It's also the home of The Richardson Farm and the World's Largest Corn Maze. Here's what it looks like this year:

There's also a mini maze as well that looks like this:


I've gone in the past and its good old fashioned Midwestern fun. You get a little card with check points and have to find your way around to each of them. It's awesome. I'm going to make the trip next weekend if anyone wants to join me. Fall is here and I couldn't be more pleased. Next fall update: how to carve dirty images into pumpkins.