2 RV's to Selma SC

... spending the night at Smithfield NC

Alarm went off 6 AM local, we didn't get going until 8 AM.

Breakfast was mostly back to pre-Covid except still no hot food, but nuke your own. So we did.

Rain.

Rain the first about three hours. Some times on intermittent and some times on constant.

OH-35 is getting closer to being done. They now have the pavement done up to a few feet within the existing highway. Once that is done it will be four lane all the way from Dayton to Charleston. They did the last part from Gallipolis to Charleston in three sections. I have watched all three get finished in the last almost 20 years.

1st stop is for fuel in Cross Lanes at the Sheetz. Based on our fuel mileage it should be our last fuel.

The Golden Corral here in Corss Lanes is being used for truck parking. Somewhere later today we see a Golden Corral that has a packed parking lot, as does the Cracker Barrel next to it.

2nd stop is in Princeton at a Taco Bell for food. This time I only got two taco's instead of three.

Once we are in Virginia there are now variable speed limit signs. Today they were set to 40 mph because of the fog. 40 was a good speed as long as the person ahead of you had their lights on.

3rd stop is the welcome center in Low Gap NC.

When we got down to Winston-Salem, we were going to take Business 40 to cut off a couple of miles. I never saw the signs so I kept going to I-40. BB remembered which exit number Business 40 was so she turned on it. Then after Business 40 merges with I-40 it merges with I-85. When it did that the exit numbers changed so BB pulled off at an exit and checked the routing. So I got to our next stop before she did.

4th stop was the Flying J in Haw River. In case we needed fuel. BB has an excess range of 40 miles and I have an excess of 80 miles. So no fuel added here.

As we are leaving Raleigh the highway signs say accident ahead. I have no idea where else to go so we stay the course. It is in the far right lanes where two freeways come together. We saw lots of people but couldn't see the damage. Maybe slow and go for about five minutes.

5th and final stop is at the Sleep Inn in Smithfield. We drove past our drop to get here. This place has fresh evening cookies, like they used to. Now they are in paper sleeves. There are ways to provide the same quality service if they want to.

We order from the San Marcos Mexican place next door. Food is ready in 20 minutes and is good. Bob Evans was in another corner of the parking lot, about five other places within walking distance. Good food.

Tomorrow we will use my RV, more fuel and the car is in BB's name, to go get the rental car. I will drop my RV and we will come back to the hotel and get BB's RV.

But 1st we may call for our run home. Plan now is to grab the truck to Effingham. The pickup is only an hour away and with any luck we may have it picked up by noon. From the pick up to drop it is about a day and a half. So we are planning on not dropping until Wednesday morning.

From our drop in Effingham we have three options right now. Two of those could be gone before we can call and get the runs.

1) One hour south of Effingham, there is a truck coming back to WI within an hour of my house. On this one we could use a local car from Effingham for the pickup and drop it back at the same place. That would cost us about $50. And it would only be a few miles out of route to go past our house to pick up our car before dropping this truck. Down side is I would have to cross the MN scale on an out of route run.

EDIT: OPPS - Wrong location. This truck is in in Indy, 150 miles away and a rental car would be about $100. The truck close to Effingham is going to TX.

2) Three hours east of Effingham there is a motor home going to MN. This run is 300 more miles dead heading than the other run and I would get paid for 150 miles less. But this one is new and the other is used.

3) Get a rental car in Effingham and head home. This would be what we normally would do. So we looked at this and a rental cars are $200 a day, twice our normal. And if we are heading back to the Carolina's on our next trip, we wouldn't leave out until Friday so getting back a day earlier without being paid wouldn't gain us anything.

But the load board changes by the hour and we can't call on a Wednesday pickup (in IN or IL) until Tuesday so a lot can change.

Weather at home got warm today. Here the highest I saw was 78 degrees. :)