1 RV heading to Elkhart IN
... spending the night at Sandusky OH
Slept good last night. Surprisingly, as I ate way too much food last night. I had about an eight inch tin foil container of chicken alfredo. At home I likely would have split it into three days instead of eating it all in one sitting, plus the garlic toast. BB did eat a little of the chicken.
My blood pressure seems to go up and down more based on how well I sleep over any other reason.
Breakfast ... served on china so we ate in the breakfast area. All I had was a little vanilla yogurt from a large bowl. Still too full for the other stuff. BB ate more than I this AM.
After we put our things in the car and the car is running I go back in to check out. When I come back out, I open the car door ... and someone is sitting in there ... their car. I had walked up to the wrong SUV. Luckily they were good with an 'excuse me.'
1st stop was in Frankfort at a rest area/oasis. I call the drop again, I get sent to voice mail on both so I leave a message with the second person. They can call me back if they wish. I had planned on calling on the IN to WI trip but BB was back to the car and I was ready to go.
2nd stop is just before we exit the toll way. Victor rest area/oasis.
3rd stop was the shipper. They had no idea what I was talking about. The main person I was talking to called others and found out what I was talking about. The other person there was just making comments like 'did we have that deer in the headlights look?'
It seems what happened is that the owner of this RV couldn't get the dealership to fix the RV so they called the manufacture and are sending it there. The RV is a year and a half old and one wall is falling apart on the inside (so it should be safe to drive.) The dealer did not know anything about this and the owner did not clear any of their personal stuff out of the RV.
The person I am talking to calls people on the radio to bring the RV up but everyone is busy so they head out to do it themselves. Then come back in, the RV is four deep behind other RV's.
... so I ask if I can go to lunch. I can. That takes care of another issue that BB and I have been talking about, where to stash my RV when we go eat. We want to eat at the Angry Rooster which is in down town.
4th stop was the Angry Rooster. As we are waiting in line to order, the person who was helping walks in. The RV is ready to go :)
Only one person working so each order took a while. The one person seemed to know everyone but us. Small town. 4,000 people in the middle of corn fields. At the center of town there is a statue in the center of town in the center of the street ... with a small round about around it.
I get a chicken salad sandwich, good but twice as much as I can eat. I save it for later, but later I throw it. Not good enough to risk getting sick over.
When we get back to the shipper, the RV is sitting there ... running. And we have been gone a half hour. We sign the paperwork and take pictures. I do have 3/8th of a tank of fuel so that is where I need to leave it at the drop.
5th stop is Angola at the Sunoco at the oasis for fuel. I put in enough fuel to get me another 100 miles to OH where fuel is now below $4. I call dispatch to let them know I have picked up. The trip I had looked at from IN to WI is gone. I did not want to call before I picked up this unit. We will see if anything else shows up, nothing right now.
6th stop is the Shell in Conneaut for fuel. I put in 25 gallons. I have no idea what mileage I am getting so I guess at 10 mpg to make sure I do not go over. From here we also decide that we will be stopping in Sandusky, another two hours down the road. Two hours IF there is no traffic in downtown Cleveland during rush hour. We look at taking other freeways but Google kept changing the routing as we looked at it so we stuck with what we knew.
NO HM / no HazMat on I-90 through Cleveland? That is what the signs say but I saw two tankers pass me on that route, one also passed a cop. Am I missing something?
There was no slowdown during rush hour, we sailed through at the posted.
Right before we get onto I-80 there is a toll booth. I have a huge overhang so I am worried that the toll readers will not read my I-pass. But the gate goes up so I do not come to a complete stop ... WHAM ... my mirror hits the post. But the glass does not shatter.
30 miles down the road and my I-pass does not activate the arm. I back up, I go ahead again. Luckily this exit has almost -0- traffic. I get out and walk around with my I-pass trying to get the arm to go up. I back up again to go to a different lane, the arm goes up ... whew.
NY was all open road tolling so I have no idea if it was reading the I-pass there or not. The plate is tied to my I-pass but this is all EZ-pass area and I'm not sure they share that info.
7th and final stop is the Quality Inn. There are nicer places at the exit but they are further off the exit.
Food is the drive thru at McD's, they have not shakes, they do not say why.
Load board
US - 572
IA - 343/339
NY - 6 (city buses going to CGO)
We have 180 miles to go in the AM before the drop. No plans after that yet.
Yes, there are now six buses going from NY to CGO, if we had waited a day. Last week it was 'if we had waited another day' we would have gotten two pickups right back past our house.
LOG
6:45 - Latham NY - Ascend hotel - leave
8:00 - Frankfort NY - rest area
9:45 - Victor NY - rest area
10:00 - Calidonia NY - pick up unit
10:15 - Calidonia NY - Angry Rooster
1:45 - Angola NY - oasis / Sunco - fuel
3:45 - Conneaut OH - Shell - fuel
6:00 - Sandusky OH - Quality Inn
6:30 0 Sandusky OH - McD's