2 RV's to Wilmington NC
... spending the night at Dayton OH
BB is up by 5:30. Neither of us slept great last night.
Breakfast was good, scrambled eggs, cheese and meat. The brand of yogurt I grabbed was not as good. Not a brand I am used to.
Day didn't start out great, I forgot to un-latch the door before trying to leave. Nothing major, just a sign that I was not on top of things this AM.
As we are waiting at the first traffic light this AM, the on-coming traffic has two left turn lanes, but on of the semi's doesn't see it that way ... traffic in the 'extra' lane has to park on the shoulder as he takes up both lanes.
We are under the 16,000# scale limit so we don't have to stop at either IL scale today, both are open. No other scales have been open so far.
1st stop is Congorville at a rest area.
2nd stop is at a Loves in Oakwood for fuel and food. Food being Hardee's. I get chicken sticks, something smaller than a sandwich today.
In the past we, we have taken different routes around or through Indy. Today we take the southern route ...
... not good ...
... on the beltway ... I loose the bottom 3/4ths of my sight in my right eye. My first thought is this is the end of my driving days. Then I am hopeful. :) Maybe when my sight comes back, the sight I lost a few years ago in that eye will come back also.
No such luck. My eyes do clear within about five minutes, but my prior eye sight loss did not come back.
... yes, it does cause me to think as it is happening, but I remember it happening as far back as in high school. Now I suppose it is time to start writing things like this down. A health log of sorts.
Back to work related things. BB had her check engine light come on just before we stopped in Oakwood. Mine came on just after we got back on the road after leaving Oakwood. So now we both have lights on. We can not deliver with any warning lights on but often they go off after 24 hours, we will see if that is the case this time.
3rd stop is a rest area just past Greenfield. Our plan had been to make it to Gallipolis or Chillicothe or Jefferson City. When we looked this AM there were not many rooms left, now when we look there are not any rooms left at the hotels we stay at.
Which is why we keep looking throughout the day. If we hadn't looked now, we would have back tracked from our next stop back to this hotel. This way it is just a short day.
4th and final stop is the Comfort Inn in Dayton. A Clarion across the freeway is $10 but this is where we have always stayed. One other car in the lot when we get there, two cars by the time we grab food. Hotel is half the price of what rooms were down the road when there were still rooms.
This place has a Waffle House and a McD's in th parking lot but we walked to Panara a block down the street. Someone almost took us out, even though we had walk light ... guess they were in a bigger rush than we.
I guess I am getting better, but most of the day I kept my jackets on and had the heat set at 85 degrees so likely not feeling great.
Load board
US - 213
IA - 86
NC - 7
We shut down early today so we will not get to Wilmington tomorrow. Hopefully Durham, that is 500 miles. But that means we need to find a place to stash one of the RV's. If we had gotten to Wilmington we would have just left one RV at the hotel.
Did get a call and email from local dispatch, I need to remember to let them know as soon as I grab a trip for this company so they don't keep calling.
There are still trips from NC that would work for us, and new trips from IA if we do head back. We will keep watching everything.