2 RV's heading to Montpelier, VT
... spending the night at Painsville OH
Time change
Will writeup later
Lake Erie, Ekko driver, Evening food
(it is now six days later. My mind might be a little foggy on the details)
We leave out of Walcott at 7 AM.
Breakfast is a no-name nuke sandwich. There is also one juice working. There are no pastries set out or anything else, makes for a quick meal.
When I check out I let the clerk know that 'near where the semi was parked' in the car area, there is now a large pool of oil.
1st stop is in Davenport at the Loves about 10 miles down the road. Last cheap fuel. I do not remember why we did not fuel at the Speedway again this trip.
2nd stop is in Ottawa at the Road Ranger for a rest stop.
Chicago traffic was not bad for a ... Saturday (?) As we are leaving Chicago there are a lot of cops in the on coming traffic, but no wreckers or fire trucks. They seem to have surrounded a car. My guess is either a high speed chase or an abduction. I did see someone holding a child among the police cars. We just had a gawkers slowdown. The other side of the freeway had four of six lanes blocked so a nice long back up.
3rd stop was in Rolling Prairie oasis for Sbarro. We both had baked ziti. We ate indoors.
4th stop was at the Loves in Edon for fuel. One exit between the IN and OH toll roads and now there is a Loves here. There had been another truckstop at this exit years ago and it closed down. For years there had also been a Subway and a Burger King, not sure if they were still here when Loves opened but they are not here now.
We did see one of our drivers and talked to him a few seconds. He wasn't sure we were driveaway because he couldn't see our plates in our front windows. He is going to PA.
5th stop is in Amhurst at a rest area right before we get to Cleveland. We are early enough that we will try to make it past Cleveland and stay at a hotel on the east side.
We did not want to go through Cleveland but every route that we looked at, Google would change before we are done looking at the directions. We finally took the route we know. I-90 through downtown.
Right before we head inland past Cleveland we are right up against Lake Erie. Today I can see the waves hitting the rocks. The rocks look like they are 20 feet high and the waves are splashing another 10 feet over the top. Not much time to look and no time for pictures.
6th and final stop is the Comfort Inn in Painsville right across from the hospital. Not cheap, but nice. And out of downtown.
Icy everywhere. We are staying right behind the storm.
We had talked about walking to McDonalds across the parking lot but that would have taken two old people a while, walking on ice. So we decided to drive.
... The lobby is closed at McDonalds, drive thru only and our RV will not fit.
... Chipotle, we can see that the line inside is from the door to the counter, we drive past.
... we end up at Subway.
I thought we would go back the way we came but we can not take a left turn onto that street. So I decided to make a u-turn in a parking lot, someone is blowing their horn at me before I do, not sure what I did wrong that time.
After I make my u-turn I realize that where I wanted to turn will not let me cross the main street, That street is right turn only. So back past the Subway. That trip to next door turned into a much longer trip in both time and miles.
Load board
US - 523
IA - 326/320
LOG
7:00 - Walcott IA - Leave Comfort Inn
7:30 - Davenport IA - Loves - fuel
9:00 - Ottawa IL - Road Ranger - rest break
11:30 - Rolling Prairie IN - Sbarro's
1:30 - Edon OH - Loves - fuel
4:00 - Amhurst OH - oasis - rest break
5:15 - Painsville OH - Comfort Inn
6:30 - Painsville OH - Subway