Awake: 6+24 Temp 43 sleep 6+32 windy….overcast overnight @ Frankford, KY.
Casual morning in campground; K & I write cards to send out for Halloween & I rinse out the pure water tank & fill it up with fresh water.
We leave the Elkhorn campground @ 1:02pm; another windy day….mostly a cornering headwind. Both yesterday & today, I continuously kept both hands on the wheel.
Kathy spent a lot of time with our books…..looking ahead for a suitable campground to spend the night…..very sparse in Kentucky, especially near I-64. The ones she did find were either closed for the season, not able to handle our size motorhome, or too far off the beaten path.
After passing through Saint Louis, MO, & driving I-44 southbound, we agreed on staying the night @ a Super Wal-Mart; (20) miles south of St. Louis. In slowing down to take the exit for that Wal-Mart, I didn’t like what I saw: already a very full & busy parking lot with no RV’s anywhere…..it just didn’t look like our big rig could be accommodated, so we continued another (30) miles & another Wal-Mart.
Now darkness is upon us; we exit I-44 & easily see the chosen Wal-Mart. Moving slowly, we do spot a small camper parked off to our right but, straight ahead of us is a horizontal pole about (10) ft high. “What’s going on?” we say to each other. Ok, we’ll ride over to the next entrance & enter there; oops, another (10) ft pole…..our coach’s height is 13 ft 12 inches. We drove around the Wal-Mart twice & every entrance had that pole gate blocking our entering the huge parking area.
Flying “J” is a mere 1/8 of a mile from the Wal-Mart so we figured: might as well join the truckers for the night. At the next red light, off to our right side was a fellow beeping his horn trying to get our attention: Kathy opened our door & talked with him. The guy saw us circle the Wal-Mart several times & wanted to help us out; “do you need electricity for camping?” he asks. “No” Kathy tells him. “Follow me; just a few blocks from here is a church parking lot that you can use for the night.” We followed him & found, to his surprise & ours, another MH already parked there. Kathy got out, talked to & thanked our late night angel for his help (he was one of the church ministers) I started the generator, turned on the TV & Kathy made some hot tomato soup with oyster crackers for our dinner…with some popcorn later.
Today’s travel: arrival time: 7:10pm driving time=7+02 386 miles 68 gal used
5.7 mpg 54.8 avg speed.
We watch: “The O’Reilly Factor,” some Fox news & ½ of the movie “Thunder Road.”
Lights out: 11:17pm
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