2 RV's to North Canton OH (delivered)

... spending the night at Elkhart IN

No alarm. We were both in bed early.

Breakfast at 6:30. Eggs and maple sausage.

Ready to leave at 7 AM just after the sun has come up. Enough water on the road that the reflection from the sun makes it hard to drive at times.

1st stop is in Clyde at the rest area. When we get back in our RV's, BB calls and says her check engine light has gone off. Mine has not. So we add a stop.

2nd stop is the last oasis in Cleveland before we exit the tollway. I shut my RV and re-start it after 10 second. My check engine light goes off and we pull back on the road right away.

3rd stop is the Loves in North Canton just past the drop. After we fuel, we leave BB's RV in the parking lot. After she has parked, I go to throw one more item in the RV and can't get in, she has parked too close to the next car. So I throw my things back in my RV ... not thinking that the person in the next car may not be able to get in theirs ...

I swing through the airport to drop off BB to pick up the rental car.

4th stop is the drop. We have been here before but I didn't remember where to park until I was on the property this time.

I have been using bolts and wing nuts to hold on our plates on these units. But there is no way to hold the heads as they fast the RV. Today my bolts were getting corroded and I had to use the vise on the threads to be able to turn the wing nuts. That was a pain. But I am afraid if we use cable ties that they will snap in the cold weather.

BB gets there before I am done with my issues, and the drop is about half done inspecting. But when I am done, I ask and get the OK to go and get BB's RV.

By the time we get back and get our things out of BB's RV, they are done with mine and start on hers. We head into the building to wait.

No issues with either ... we are good to go. At first we sit in the lot to decide the where of where we are going to go. There are two trips close but not going where we want. We end up deciding to deadhead to IN where more of our shippers are and we will get there about dark so we will spend the night.

5th stop is up the road in Akron at a Freddie's Custard. Onion burger and a cherry malt for me. To go. Full, stuffed.

6th stop is the rest area near Genoa. This is one of the oasis they are re-building. I think this one used to have a DQ and a BK and those two will be replaced by a Hardee's. The coffee shop will be the same one but will be moved.

7th and final stop for the day is Elkhart at the Comfort Inn. We were going to stay at a Best Western but it was $100+. Then we looked at a Sleep Inn for half the price. Until BB looked at the reviews of the Sleep Inn and saw the why ... so we ended up at the Comfort Inn. We have stayed at the Sleep Inn last time and it wasn't an issue but maybe we didn't read the reviews first.

We have a car so we drive to Callahan's for food. Home cookin' instead of Cracker Barrel. BB had almost the same thing as she would have either place. I got a chicken salad sandwich instead of meatloaf. Plus soup and apple sauce. Too much food again. I couldn't and didn't eat it all.

We have spent hours looking at trips today. There have been ones to AZ and CA ... too far. We have looked in detail at other trips and up to a few minutes ago thought we had a plan. But it comes down to, we will make more money if we just deadhead home than keep working.

That is what happens when we have to pay for a rental car, hotels, and only one of us driving. The math doesn't work. We make more with two of us driving and then deadhead home. Another issue playing in this time is the weather. Right now we can head home, if we wait a half a day, then we have to wait until the storm passes to move.

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