Awake: 5:22am Temp 57 sleep 6+30 sunny overnight @ Nicktown, PA.
We leave Nicktown @ 7:17am. Kathy calls Kevin to let him know that we are on our way; (31) min later, we meet Kevin @ the off ramp @ 6th Street & US 422. It takes only seconds to transfer the sourdough pancake starter she had made for Kevin + a letter for Kevin to mail & then we continue on to the town of Kittanning, PA.
We know Kittanning has a Costco store in its Community Park but our Lady Garmin on (2) tries did not take us on a comfortable route with the motorhome. Going down narrow & curvy streets in residential neighborhoods does not compute so I aborted that mission; besides, we have many miles to travel yet today. On our return trip, we’ll simply park the bus & scout around using our tow vehicle.
We continue on R-422 to I-79 to I-80 to the toll road I-90 through the remainder of Ohio & all of Indiana. 1st time for us using toll roads; not so bad & the price was less then we expected. Maybe the girl missed seeing our small tow car behind our motorhome & only counted (3) axles. The roads were so-so in the smooth category but we sure made some miles without slowdowns or stops. Trucks, it was like, more trucks than automobiles.
Close to Gary, Indiana we make a Flying “J” fuel stop of 150 gal @ $2.54 per gallon & shortly thereafter, our average speed diminished considerably. We ran into the famous Chicago rush hour; big time! In our meager planning these last few days, we couldn’t arrive @ a bulletproof method to avoid the big city congestion, so we paid the hr or better price of slow moving traffic to continue to today’s destination.
Approaching Milwaukee, Kathy calls ahead to make sure a campground site is available; it is. Road construction with a detour on I-94 gave us a city tour we hadn’t planned on, but we still arrived @ the Milwaukee Fairgrounds Campground @ 8:02pm (CDT) with daylight.
Today’s travel: 649.5 miles 13+27 time 102.6 gal used 6.3 mpg 48.3 avg speed.
10:15 dinner: Leftover chicken & broccoli dish, brown rice & mixed salad.
I wore Kathy out today but she still had enough energy to make dinner, wash the dishes & watch the O’Reilly Factor on TV.
High travel temp=90 Lights out: 11:15pm
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