2 RV's to NY
... spending the night at Hamburg NY
Breakfast, eggs and sausage.
Left out at 7:30. Someone had parked cross-ways in front of us so we would have had to back out instead of pull thru but he left just before us.
Not much for traffic this AM. OK, there was traffic, just no major slow downs considering we went past Chicago.
The most notable thing that leg was that when BB got to the first toll booth the arm would not go up, so she drove around it. That was the first location I had seen with an arm short enough to do that. We have I-passes and no one mans those lanes.
1st stop was the Rolling Prairie rest area in IN.
When we left IN, BB with through a toll booth lane with a person in case there was an issue. No issue, BB even talked to the person and they said it shows what time she past the first toll booth ??? (not sure why the arm didn't raise)
2nd stop was for fuel and food at the Love's / Arbey's in Edon OH
Not sure what was going on here, they were having a big 'rah - rah' event for Arbey's employees that was taking up 2/3rds of the eating area ... during the lunch hour? So we ate outside by our RV's.
When we were fueling there was 'Amish looking' people at the back side of my fuel pump. Then one got in and drove the van away ... and I noticed that their clothes hanging in the back had designer names on them. I'm wondering if they were not Amish but 'actors' somewhere.
3rd stop was the rest area in Amherst OH just before Cleveland.
From here I had to call my local dispatcher back, they had left a message. They wanted me to do a round trip to Chicago ... if I was in town.
4th stop was the rest area, welcome center in PA at West Springfield.
During the later part of the day, we saw three deer in different places, each at the bottom of the ditch along the freeway. One of them had a 'Bambi' that looked like it was just learning to walk. I hope the plan was not to try to get it across the freeway, that would not end well.
Lots of road construction but we still got a good look at the lake. Lake Erie, both in Cleveland and near East End PA.
5th stop was for food and fuel in Ripley NY at the Love's / Hardee's. Plan had been to stop back at Conneaut for food and fuel but BB looked closer today and saw that fuel here in Ripley was $.30 a gallon cheaper here. I am up to 17.3 mpg so that is helping. No weather/wind to cut into that number.
Today I left my RV running while I fueled and when the fuel range got to my miles left, I put in one more gallon and stopped fueling. I was hoping to gain more range but I did not on the final leg for today. I'd rather pay $6 a gallon for what I need instead of leaving five gallons of $5 fuel.
Just as we were turning in the drive to Loves, there was a CGO bus pulling out. We also met two Portland OR buses earlier today. Buses are moving. I was expecting to see more RV's around the Elkhart area but no more than any other place on the highway. 100's/1,000's in the manufactures lots.
6th and final stop was the Comfort Inn in Hamburg NY. It is 8 PM when we get here and there is already one semi with trailer, two semi tractors only but some other pickups and trailers taking extra spaces so we decided we would fit into one space each. It can be done with these.
Load board
US - 372
IA - 192/188
Two hours to BB's drop tomorrow, then a half hour to the rental car. Then she will follow me for about three hours to my drop. Not likely that we will get to my drop before they close and we do not need to.