Awake: 5:34am Temp: forgot to look sleep 6+26 cloudy overnight @
Wal-Mart, Mineral Springs, PA.
For whatever reason, K & I both had a restless sleep…..awakening sometime
after 3:00pm, drinking some milk, then finally falling back to sleep
again. Maybe it was the semi-truck & his engine idling parked behind us?
We have little to do in prep for travel. I walk around both the motorhome
& Suzuki checking what’s necessary: running the Suzuki engine with the
transfer gear case in neutral & the shifting lever in drive or reverse to
circulate that transmission fluid; then put the shift lever back in park.
When it’s light enough for us to see obstacles in the parking lot, we
leave the Mineral Springs Wal-Mart @ 7:30am. About 125 miles west on I-80,
we top off our fuel tank @ Flying “J” in Hubbard, Ohio, taking on 123
gallons of diesel.
Today’s weather for driving is much better with a cornering headwind from
the southwest & no rain yet. In addition to the Flying “J” stop, I make a
comfort stop by the roadside halfway thru the day.
From I-80, we transition to I-76, then I-71 to hwy 30. Approaching the
town of Valparaiso, Indiana I ask Kathy to guess how many traffic lights
we can expect to pass thru before reaching I-65. She guesses 17; my guess
is 22. This stretch is about 5 miles long & is a BAD-BAD thing. I’ve
complained about it before with its ill timed traffic lights. Anyway, we
counted a total of 24 lights before getting onto I-65. Up the road on
I-65, we are delayed for a conservative 50 min due to heavy construction &
collecting the toll for I-80. Toll price for our distance traveled today
was $3.00.
The rain began just as we were sitting in traffic for the toll stop &
continued throughout the day. The roads however, were mostly smooth along
our journey today.
We arrive @ the HWH factory parking spot in Moscow, Iowa @ 8:05pm. In the
rain & darkness, Kathy with 2 more HWH customers, Don & his brother, Les,
help guide my backing up into a narrow parking space so we can have 50 amp
service.
Today’s travel: 13+08 time 735 miles 96.5 gal used 7.65 mpg 56.9
avg speed.
9:15 dinner: Leftover meatloaf, brown rice, mixed veggies in cream sauce &
mixed salad.
We call Nick in Seattle: he is leaving for Russia Saturday so we both take
our turn talking.
We tune in a satellite movie to watch but both of us have difficulty
staying awake, so we nix that idea & succumb to sleep for the night.
Today’s travel temp=? Elevation: 734 ft Lights out: 12:32am
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