2 RV's to North Canton OH (delivered)

... spending the night at home

5 AM local? 4 AM home time? Anyway, it was early. Early, after a rough night. I dreamt I wasn't feeling well because of how much I had eaten yesterday. I didn't feel a whole lot better when I woke up.

Breakfast - they had one carton of yogurt, peach yogurt. So it was eggs and sausage for me.

We pull out at 7 AM. Plan was to buy gas near the hotel. But the actual price was $.50 more per gallon than listed online. So we decide it will be cheaper on the toll road. Wrong again ... it had been cheaper on the toll road, back in OH. We should have gotten off the toll road and fueled at one of the truck stops but that would take more time than we wanted to spend.

1st stop is for fuel at the Sunoco at the Rolling Prairie oasis.

It looks like the storm has slowed by about three hours so we should miss it completely.

2nd stop is at a rest area near Minooka.

3rd stop is for food and fuel in Davenport IA at the Loves/Arby's. Love's is still under $3, the other two stations and most other stations we see today are another $.30+ per gallon.

We are just a couple of minutes before 10:30 so we can still get breakfast at Arby's. And for breakfast you can get potato cakes. Didn't know that. Also had a bacon croissant. Third stop of the day and it is not even 10:30 in the morning.

We didn't see this today, but I remembered it when we passed today. The truck wash in Walcott ... there was a semi, oversized parked crossways before the entrance. Now I am assuming here, but I am guessing he got to the door and didn't fit through. So he had to get turned around and have everyone move so he could exit on the one entrance lane. His oversized load was a Claas combine. ??? What was he thinking?

BB had said the next stop would be Forest City and who was I to question? :)

I knew it was four hours (not two) but went with it ... two hours in and BB is wanting to stop.

4th stop is the Flying J in Evansdale/Waterloo for the restrooms and some juice.

Forgot about this a few days ago when it happened. Just as we were heading out of Forest City with our last RV's, there was some road-kill on the highway. And an eagle pecking at it. I wasn't sure if the eagle was going to move, so I drove into the on-coming traffic lane to miss them. The eagle did move and BB was able to drive over the road kill. I hadn't noticed it, but right in that same area, BB saw an eagle landing in a tree. For me, I think this is the closest I have been to an eagle in the wild.

5th stop is the shipper in Forest City to pick up our car. Another restroom break and quickly throw our stuff from one car to the other. No time to talk to anyone.

BB heads out at the speed limit, I drive about 65 mph for the next two hours. That gets me to the airport about 10 minutes before she drops the rental car. This time I did drive through the cemetery, snow has settled a lot but still no good way to walk to look for graves and can't see much of the markers when you do find them.

Then I parked in the cell phone lot, very crowded today. When I go to leave, it sounds like my brakes are dragging ... then a plan must have let off on it's brakes and all was good, for me. Only five cars in front of this airport and two of them are cop cars so all the cars in the cell lot must be waiting for the other airport.

Bub's is open today. But out of what we want so we take it cold and cook it at home our selves.

IF we had stayed in the Best Western we wanted to ... there was a truck coming to WI within two miles of the hotel by 8 AM. Plus a few others today from the area.

... and ... last Tuesday we were in NC, no work. This Tuesday we are in OH and there is work in NC coming back home to MN ... and more on Wednesday. Also trips to CGO and TX that we would have taken. Timing.

Load board

US - 191

IA - 73/72

There are short trips that will work, if it wasn't for the weather. The weather. Quick storm that has the freeways shut down in NE again. It should hit us overnight. We will see how things look in the AM. We are home with no cost for a rental car or hotel.