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171102 - IA to AZ - Day 6
Today's push is to get home to our airport before sunset, so we are out of the motel before sun up. First stop a few miles down the road is at the Pilot at Wood River. We had once yesterday that our range after a fill was 600+ miles but the last two are just under 500. So we'll be stopping at least...
171101 - IA to AZ - Day 5
We had not decided which route we would take home until we were pulling out of the motel this morning. We had a choice of at least three routes that were all within 15 min travel time and all were on two lane highways and all had limited motels until we had driven over 700 miles. I decided to take a...
171031 - IA to AZ - Day 4
(I lost everything I just typed... grrr) We were out of the hotel before daylight, and past the scale before it opened. First stop is the Pilot in Tucson, where we fuel and park BB's RV while we pick up our rental and drop off my RV. Then back five miles to pick up her RV and we get back to our drop...
171030 - IA to AZ - Day 3
Late morning, knew we were not going anywhere right away anyway. We had to wait until 8:30 to call for a permit. Got thru right away but they had to do someone else's first. The other person got into a state without a permit and needed it now. The second issue we thought we might have is not an issu...
171029 - IA to AZ - Day 2
Left out before sunrise. We decided not to take the toll road, it is about a minute difference either way. Not taking the toll road gets us off the Interstate at Emporia and then heading west to Newton. Stopped at the Newton truckstop for our first break. The old Red Roach/Red Coach motel is still c...
171028 - IA to AZ - Day 1
We were ready to head out on Wednesday but we were waiting for the perfect run... and to see which way the storm would go. A lot of high winds with this storm so no fun driving with an RV. We had though we would go SE where there is more work but no good runs showed up that direction... and that is...