1 RV to Syracuse NY (delivered)

1 RV to Kingston NY (delivered)

... spending the night at Warwick RI

We slept in, sort of. We got up based on central time.

Yogurt today, it's been a while.

We pull out aast 8:30 local.

1st stop is the Sunoco a few blocks away. I need three gallons of gas to get to the drop, I put in four gallons just to make sure. While I sat at the hotel my fuel range went from 40 miles to not showing. After I put in four gallons, I should have had a range of about 100 miles, instead I got a range of 155. WAY more than needed.

2nd stop is in Kingston at QuikChec for dealer fuel, then another mile down the road to ...

3rd stop is at the customer. It seems like it takes forever but we were in and out in an hour. After they signed and I walked to the car I noticed that they had written that there were scratches on the drivers side. So I went back and took lots of pictures. I couldn't see any scratches, so far I have not loaded the pictures on my computer to blow them up.

When BB first started driving, we hit all but one state within about nine months. Rhode Island. We need to be in the area for the weekend so we decided to head to Providence from the drop. When I am not working I spend time on genealogy and as part of that I take pictures of grave markers. There is a cemetery in Providence with a few relatives so that is where we are heading.

4th stop was for food. Soups On in Westfield. It is on a one way street and I miss the driveway so we need to go around the block again to get to it. It is in the back of a very old building, brass ceilings. They had a chicken salad sandwich so I ordered a whole one, then I decided to try a soup even though they didn't have my main favorites. At that point I should have changed it to a half a sandwich.

Soup came first, mine was cheeseburger broccoli, actually pretty good. And the sandwich was the best I have had in long time ... so good that I kept eating when I should have quit.

5th stop is at the rest area near Charlton. They had a Papa Gino's and a sandwich shop. I had seen them on a few other Oasis so I wanted to see what they were. But we had just eaten.

We didn't stop, but we exited the freeway at Worcester. Not a freeway but there are still toll readers. After a while I was trying to figure out if they were reading tolls for all the cars or just the semi's. The signs only gave a rate for the semi's.

By not it is almost rush hour on a Friday night and we are heading into a major city.

6th stop. We found the cemetery, we drove all the way around it. It is a church cemetery but there is no church, and it is not being kept up. The grass has not been mowed and some of the stones are falling over. And the surrounding houses and roads are not being kept up.

I don't think it was really a 'bad' area, there were no boarded up buildings, barbwire fences. The cars on the streets all seemed to be newer and it seemed to be thriving but just not being kept up real well. When we found a place to park on the street we pulled over. We didn't feel unsafe, but we also did not feel like staying. So we only stayed long enough to get directions to the next closest cemetery.

On our way we saw a Spiderman car and twice when we were at a 90 degree angle to the driver he was wearing his Spiderman mask. BB got a couple of pictures of the car but wasn't ready when we saw him with the mask.

Even with directions live we missed the turn to the cemetery ...

7th stop was in Johnston at a cemetery. The office was already closed but I had locations and they had a map on a huge sign. I parked next to the area in and within a few minutes BB had found the stones, somehow she seems to be able to find them faster than I can. All three stones I was looking for were in the same area, same row.

From there we had not had a plan, but finally decided to head back south where there was a hotel that was cheaper.

8th and final stop was at a Comfort Inn/Suites in Warwick. Once we were checked in we headed to a Walt's Roast Beef. It was OK, something different. Not bad but likely would not head there again. Besides the sandwich I also got baked beans, but BB and I agree they were likely Bush's beans. So nothing special. There also was a Papa Gino's but that wasn't what we picked.

While we were out, we fueled up at a Mobil. The car said we still had a range of 140 miles on an 1/8 of a tank but I didn't trust it. $4.99 a gallon. Cheaper than NY or CT.

The bus that was on the load board last night is gone.

Tolls are slow in showing up on our account and we don't get paid until they do. So far we have the IL and OH from Wednesday. The IN was also from Wednesday and also part of NY. Then more NY from Thus and Fri to still show up.

Way back last week I had forgot my power cord for my phone so I had to buy a new one on the road. I used it sparingly until I got home and could use the old one again.

But that didn't work either so I had taken it to the store and they looked at it and said the old cord was bad but the new one was good. I took the phone home and charged it for the day and got it to 100%.

Now on the trip it is not charging very fast. Right now it is back to charging about 2% per hour and was down to under 20% charge. I will leave it plugged in all night and see where it is at in the AM.

Load board

US - 339

IA - 170/167

Tomorrow we will spend some time in the area before heading back up to VT. We have a hotel room in Rutland VT for the following two nights. Other family will also be arriving, then family time for Sunday and part of Monday. If there is work we will head out mid-afternoon, if not we will stay in the area until Tuesday mid-afternoon. At that point we leave one way or the other. Right now there is not anything in the five state area heading home. Only one going anywhere and that is heading south.