2 RV's to Selma SC
... spending the night at Chillicothe OH
NO breakfast so we walk across the street to Pilot / Arbey's. Website says 24 hours. People hanging out say they will open at 9 AM. We are there at 7 AM. So we grab food off the warmer. BB gets an egg and bacon biscuit and I get an egg and bacon on french toast. Too much bread so I don't eat the one slice of it.
Ready to go at 7:30
1st stop is Goodfield at the IL welcome center.
2nd stop is Crawfordsville at the Pilot for Subway and fuel.
Only one person working the Subway, good thing it wasn't busy. Only one person ahead of us and they took 10 minutes. Noticed a missing person sign while we were waiting. Adult, last seen wondering aimlessly in front of the Pilot sometime last year. Off their meds.
3rd stop is near New Paris at the OH welcome center.
4th and final stop the Quality Inn in Chillicothe. We call next door to Roosters for food, but it keeps saying I am next in line for 15 minutes so we hang up. We look at the Applebee's but everything we liked was too filling. So we end up at Cain's Chicken Fingers. We've never eaten at one before. Your choice of food is chicken fingers. Two kinds of dipping sauce. And drinks.
The drive thru line was all the way around the building and no one was inside so we weren't sure until we got to the door if we could go inside. Then someone else followed us in.
Chicken was good, if you like breaded fingers.
Load board
US - 357
IA - 146
MN -0-
WI - 5
We see a total of 4 transporters today. Two RV's and two buses. We are kind of in the gap where we are on the road that the transporters don't take.
Somewhere this AM I saw a guy come up behind us and go around BB and cut in between us. I thought he was getting out of someone's way. Nope, he got right up to me and then passed and back in front of me with a half a car length to spare. Older guy, didn't look out of it. When he gets a few car lengths ahead of me ... DING ... he hits the rumple strips and kicks up a rock. Nice big crack in my windshield.
As far as I could see him, he was driving the same way.
Very quite day on the roads today, no slow downs even coming through Indy.
Is Covid finally over? Starting with the last trip when we were in KS. The parking lot for the buffet in Liberal was packed. Yesterday I noticed the same for Chedders in Iowa City. Tonight at the Roosters in Chllicothe.
450 miles left for tomorrow. I haven't been to this location yet, but we have been in this area enough that I have only written down one exit number. The rest I am hoping I remember as we will be on a half a dozen freeways tomorrow. Not like staying on I-80 from IA to CA.
Catch up ...
Yesterday we saw a San Diego bus at Owattona fueling and then saw it again when we stopped for food in Norwood IA. I thought about going over and talking to the driver but we were already later than planned. Not sure how many of the drivers I would know there anymore.
And before that, when we had stopped for fuel at the Flying J and were leaving, I was looking at a Penske truck to see if it was a transporter. When the truck started to move he went over a snow pile like when you jump a curb. So I am watching him as he comes up to the street, he never looks my way. I lay on the horn, he stops.
And then when we were in IA on the prior trip I saw 12 new mixers. 9 did not have any placards and 8 of them still had paperwork glued to the front window. Two mixers had placards, taped in the center of their side windows. Only one was done correctly. I can't read fast enough to see what companies they were driving for.