Last day in this unit :)

I woke up a little before the alarm went off, even on the east coast. Been in all four time zones this trip.

Breakfast, I want to be rid of this bus today so I'm a little more on edge than usual so I settle for two cups of yogurt instead of eggs and sausage.

Something in our hallway on the 2nd floor smells really bad. Like a very toxic cleaner or something. We had come up to our floor last night in the elevator so that time we walked the hall. Since that every trip up and down has been using the stairs so we don't have to walk down the hall. Room is fine, but nearly the size of last nights.

Today we don't have our stop/stops lined up. BB picks one once we are going. Traffic is not bad at all around Indy. Computer says to take I-70 through down town, I take the beltway. Overhead signs say there will be a slow down, but by the time we get there it has cleared.

Just north of Indy I'm behind a pickup with a trailer and I see one rock fall off, then another. I back off but not quick enough. I hear it ding so I'm pretty sure it is not the window. When we are stopped both BB and I look at it and can't find a ding anywhere. I look again later at the truck wash and can't find anything ... before it's washed.

Our one and only stop today is at a Love's in Pendelton. No designed right, to get there you are almost taking a U-turn to get on the side street ??? Quick in and out.

As we walk back to the bus, I am parked between two semi's and I compare the height. Last night I had looked at the online images of the airport and wasn't sure I wanted to drive past the front of the airport not knowing how tall the bus was. I still don't, but it is three feet shorter than the semi's and they are <> 13.6.

Next stop was the airport. Roadwork so very narrow lane one way to get there. Once we are at the airport, people are parked on both sides of the street where no one is supposed to be parking ... and this airport curves in the middle so I had to be watching all corners as I weaved my bus between them. After I stopped to drop BB off, I looked in my mirror and no one was coming ... because someone had stopped in the middle lane to let someone and their luggage off.

With the roadwork I missed my turn to head back to the freeway. Just as well, the route I took had stoplights, the one I had planned on taking did not.

Six trucks ahead of me at the wash. 1st truck took over a half hour. I was in line about two hours. The guy behind me had shut his truck off when he first got there and it almost didn't restart. He wanted to leave it running while they washed him but that is a no-no. So after a two hour wait, he drove through the wash and headed back home. There is no way out of line once you are in it.

I had put an extra clamp on the leak a few days ago and I wanted it off before I delivered it so I was underneath working on that when I felt my leg getting wet. By the time I got out from under I was thoroughly soaked in the crotch ... now I had to go to the customer :)

I decided to add more fuel. We are supposed to deliver with 3/8. Gauge had been showing 1/2 until I stopped at the wash, then it dropped to 1/4 which should have been closer to right if I'm getting 8 mpg. So I added what I thought would be an 1/8th of a tank of fuel. Drove three miles and delivered it over 1/2 full. ??? I think I always watch close when I'm moving, but BB was right behind me at the pump with the rental car and she thought I was going to hit the yellow post. That would have been a big ouch in the income.

Pull into the customer and the person I need to see is walking out to see me as I am calling them. They did notice the leak and they found the ding. A lot easier to see once the bugs have been washed off. They didn't note either on my BL so I should be good.

I called the shipper and left a message about the leak. I really don't like dropping things that have a known issue. An hour later the shipper calls me back and writes up a report for the call in I had made on Monday. I felt much better about it after that.

While we were at the wash BB had walked over to McD's and got food. I had a small burger, that was enough.

We head out to home on US-30. Four lane highway across the center of the state, stop lights in every small town. Nice to be off the freeway but it takes longer.

We stop in Plymouth at a Pilot for the rest rooms.

Once we got to I-65 south of Gary we head up to I-80. Must be a lot of stop lights as the computer wouldn't give us a route staying on US-30. Computer said I-80 had been closed since yesterday, then later the computer was saying there was a huge delay east of Chicago.

So we stopped at the Oasis in South Holland and ate at the Panda Express. This place has eight food choices and the Oasis in IN have one, no-name place. I don't understand. I got the orange chicken and noodles. BB got something and veggie's.

By the time we were done eating, the computer did not show a delay. And by the time we past Joliet, it was the same time as the computer said we would get there ... without the stop to eat. Good planning for once on our part.

To shorten the day tomorrow, we drove for another hour after we ate.

Comfort Inn in Ottawa for the night.

Wish I would have gotten a picture of the RV being transported we past a couple of times. We are supposed to have our plates on the rear and the placards/ID's on both sides. This person had all three, top to bottom in his left front window. No only placed wrong, but obstructing their view.

We were within 15 minutes of where we pick up the buses in IN but we didn't stop. I'll look at the pictures online instead.

RV's out of IN are still on the board, down to -0- out of IA tonight.

One day, Thursday, home and then ??? We'll see.