2 RV's heading to Montpelier, VT

... spending the night at Rutland VT

Rough morning. Not only are we in a new time zone we are back on daylight savings. A two hour time difference getting up from yesterday. Two hours earlier.

71 miles to go

Breakfast was bacon and eggs. This place also had Malt-oMeal, we don't see that often (or ever?)

Ice, everywhere. Slipped an inch once but that was all, but it does keep one thinking.

1st stop is 40 miles down the road at a Shell station for fuel. Brand new, not on images on the computer. Truckers like their big parking but no one is at their diesel pumps. And at the Lover across the street every diesel island is full and Loves posted price is more.

Today we have gift cards to use, and we have a discount / rewards card that saves us three cents so that makes their fuel cheaper for us.

It is cold. Temps are just over the single digits. My fingers are froze just swiping the card and hitting the keys.

There is an old 'Dixie' truck stop sign that looks as clear as when they would have put it up. It was already closed when I started taking trips this way in 2003.

This AM roads are still wet in places and still are hard packed in the left lane in a few places. Don't want to be driving on this after dark, glad we shut down when we did.

Lost in my own thoughts I wasn't really looking for things this AM. But I was looking around near North East and saw the lake. Lake Erie.

The elevation and geography is such that you can see the lake for a couple of miles. Open water out, froze over closer in.

2nd stop was at a rest area/oasis in Angola for a break. The sign and memory says this oasis just had a McDonald's. Now it also has a Cinnibon's, Subway and another restaurant.

3rd stop was for food in Scottsville at a rest area/oasis. Arbey's is what the signs and the website said was open. But Tim Horton's was also open. Open but out of half their food. There are a few things we like there and it would be a change but the only food they had today were a few breakfast sandwiches and we already had breakfast.

4th stop was at a rest area/oasis in Oneida for fuel at a Sunoco. We didn't need fuel yet but we would need it before we got off the toll road so rather than have an extra stop we fueled here. I put in less than I needed hoping I would gain more range. BB put in more than she needed after running on 'E' a couple of trips ago.

5th stop was at a rest area near Clifton Park. We are off the toll road so it is not an oasis. It is still early enough that we can make it to Rutland but not Burlington.

One of the few things nice about going east is there are more places the speed limit is 65 mph so we do not feel like we are going to get run off the road.

I/we thought we were taking a different road than usual when we got off of the freeway today.

6th and final stop was the Comfort Inn in Ruthland

Food was 5 guys.

More later

(five days later)

I know where the hotel is and then I see the entrance sign so I head that way ... and make a u-turn. The main entrance is under a walk way, we find another way it. This place is called the Trolley. I hope that is not because it has train tracks on two sides of the hotel.

We get parked and check in. Another old hotel.

As soon as we drop our things in our room, we walk across the street to the Mickey D's. The lobby closes at 7 PM and we are there at 7:10. Back we go to the hotel. There are two other places within walking distance. The one we get a discount at has food we might want ... if it was $40 a plate. The other one is a bar and we don't see a menu so we finally decide to order online from Five Guys.

Between deciding, ordering, eating we are easily using up 1-1/2 to two hours of our off time. That is why I have gotten so far behind on doing the write ups.

We don't decide until tomorrow if I will be traveling with BB or we will go our own ways in the AM.

LOG

7:00 - Painsville OH - Comfort Inn - leave

8:00 - Conneaut OH - Shell - fuel

9:45 - Angola NY - oasis - rest break

11:30 - Scottsville NY - Arbey's

1:45 - Oneida NY - Sunoco - fuel

3:45 - Clifton Park NY - rest area

5:30 - Rutland VT - Comfort Inn

6:45 - Rutland VT - Five Guys