2 RV's to North Canton OH

... spending the night in North Canton OH

No breakfast at all so it is leftovers from last night.

We were up earlier than the alarm so we get going a little early. We do our inspections and then drive for 10 miles. Fuel is $.11 a gallon cheaper there.

1st stop is the Flying J in Davenport. There is a Comfort Inn here, but then food last night would have been Denny's. :(

2nd stop is the Road Ranger in Ottawa for a rest break.

OH dispatch calls me a couple of times while I am driving. I call back when we are stopped. First they want me to go another 300 miles east ... no, I tell them, if we had wanted to go that far we would have taken a longer trip, like to the Carolina's. So they offer me a trip to the Carolina's. I try to stay polite.

Then the want me to go to MI. No, we are going to MN, they don't have anything (then.) And this is the chassis dispatcher, I don't want any of those trucks. Dispatchers must have been talking between them, I have never talked to this one before yesterday and she knew that my wife and I ran together.

3rd stop is the Oasis near Rolling Prairie at Sbarro's. On line I thought it said they had a Popeye's, but the other food is Burger King. We eat indoors, only a couple of other people eating inside.

No stop and go's today. Just lots of semi's jockeying for position. Weather was good, just a few brief showers.

4th is for fuel at Loves near Edon. It is the only exit between the IN tollway and the OH tollway. I do the math on how many miles we have left to go, how much range I currently have and what my mpg are. If my mpg is correct and stays the same, I will not make it to final fuel. But there are fuel stops, I can add more.

5th stop is at another oasis near Clyde for the restroom.

6th stop is for final fuel and food. Circle K has the gas closest to the drop, we put in our final fuel there. WOW. I thought I was going to be short on fuel. I got here with a range of 88 miles. I was that far off on 200 miles. BB was closer to correct, her low fuel light came on before we got to the station.

Food. From the gas station, we go across the street to Arby's. Sign says drive thru only open. Wrong, nothing is open. So we drive to McD's. Again, drive thru only. So we cross the street to the grocery store. All the custom deli, made to order area's are closed. So it is shelf food. We get a collection of stuff so we would have enough for breakfast.

All this looking for food cost us an extra half hour. It's been a long day already.

7th and final stop is at the Hilton 'something' for the night. We didn't realize they had food here, it didn't show on the map. They also have breakfast here. $10 each, made to order, all you can eat. All I can eat is a couple of cups of yogurt at a $1 each so not a good deal for me.

Load board

US - 533

IA - 273

MN - 7

WI - 11

Now OH does have runs going to Duluth MN and some to WI, but they are still chassis. Sorry. Otherwise it would work out good. IN didn't add anything today except two to Canada.

Our hotel tonight is about a quarter of a mile from the airport and rental car, then about a mile from the drop. We can't pick up the car until 9:30 so not an early day.

From there we will head home and watch the load board.