Awake: 6:20am Temp 48 sleep 7+13 drizzle most of day overnight @ Corydon, IN.
Pulling out of our campsite this morning took about (10) sec with no obstacles. We left this historic & interesting town of 2715 people @ 9:25am & continued on I-64 toward St. Louis. Again we got lucky & zoomed right thru this busy city of 384,000 @ the right time of day, & then I-44 toward Springfield, MO.
I had asked Kathy if she would pick out a campground further southwest in the event the driver got tired. She told me the driver rarely gets tired driving & she felt that we were going to go the distance today without a doubt! But...she selected (2) big rig campgrounds anyway just to please the driver. I felt like giving her a big kiss!
Passing Springfield, MO I began to take notice of our remaining fuel; I had glided on by a Flying J fuel Station about a (100) miles back & expected to see another Flying J soon. Kathy checked the road atlas & Flying J was further away than I thought.
Not wanting to check the accuracy of our gauges, down the road a few miles we stopped at a Travel Center.
That (185) gallons made us both feel more comfortable; we pulled into the Newell Service campground just before darkness @ 6:35pm.
Today's travel: 553 miles 9+42 travel time 89 gal used 6.2 mpg 57 mph avg speed.
We were parked & Kathy was getting dinner ready when a call came thru on the cell phone: it was Gary & he wanted to know if we were going to make Miami, Ok today. I let him know that "Yes we are here." I think Rosemary had a big buck bet that we wouldn't have arrived so soon.
Dinner: ham, left over yam, broccoli
Lights out: 11:24pm
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