Awake: 5:42am Temp 71 sleep 6+09 cloudy, windy overnight @ Newell Campsite, Miami, OK.
We left Miami, OK @ 7:27am following US-69 to Commerce, OK...thru Baxter Springs, Kansas to US-400 to I-44 & thru Joplin, MO; thru St. Louis, Mo to I-70.
A cornering tail wind kept us moving in the right direction most of the day; However, I wish I'd known about the poor road conditions of I-70, especially when bouncing thru the state of Indiana....very much like a wash-board. Maybe we are just spoiled. For 95% of our travels en route to Florida thru Ohio, Kentucky, Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama & Florida itself, we had very few complaints. In fact, we were down right delighted with their highways.
Before bouncing thru the city of Indianapolis, I asked Kathy to start looking for a campground for the night somewhere east of Indianapolis; she selected the same campground where we stayed overnight when returning from our 2005 Asian Pacific cruise on December, 15th. That campground was the only one available for us that was still open (yr around); some of the sites had been plowed open & had (50) amps + running water. It looked beautiful to us then & still looks good to us now. We arrived @ the Heartland RV Resort in Greenfield, Indiana @ 6:15pm.
Today's travel: 574 miles 10+00 hrs 86 gals used 6.7 mpg 57 mph avg speed.
It took some time for me to settle down & relax without the feeling of being bounced around; then when I tried to turn on our living room TV, nothing. The TV itself was not powered; I'll trouble-shoot it when we get to PA. The so called, "Kathy's TV," worked as usual, so after a dinner of leftover stuffed pepper & a mixed salad, we watched a movie in the bedroom.
Meanwhile, laundry was started before dinner & continued throughout the evening hrs while watching the movie: "Seems like old Times" with Goldie Hawn, Chevy Chase, Charles Grodin, Robert Guillaume, Harold Gould, etc. Neil Simon's homage to 1930's screwball farces is quite enjoyable, with Goldie as a good-hearted lawyer whose ex-husband (Chase) disrupts her life & threatens the career of her new spouse (Grodin). Funny lines & situations all the way up to pointless finale. 1980. I couldn't agree more with that last line.
(4) loads of laundry were done this evening & the last load can wait until morning.
Lights out: 12:35am
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