2 RV's to Greer NC

... spending the night at London KY

This Baymont does not have hot food for breakfast, not sure if any of them do. My breakfast was two hard boiled eggs and one so so yogurt. So so as it was diet and half banana, neither my favorite.

No issues, ready to roll a little after 7 AM.

Before we left the hotel, I had seen two Kona Ice trucks in the next hotel lot and took a picture of them, thinking they were in transport. Not sure if they were, but those trucks did pass us twice in the AM.

At one of the first exits we pass, when I get to the entrance ramp I hear 'BEEEEEP.' I look over and someone is right beside me. I didn't see them coming down the ramp, so I guess they came down after I looked ... at 80 mph ... and then expected me to get our of their way instead of merging behind or in front of me.

I was surprised so I merged left without thinking. They continued to lay on the horn for as long as I could hear them ... with one hand out the window giving me the one finger salute. If they had let off the gas for a second, they could have gotten behind me and around in less time than it took for me to move over. Looked like someone was already having a good day ...

1st stop was an hour down the road in Morton at the rest area. This way we were on our same stops as last time and BB could just copy from one page to the next.

2nd stop was in Covington at the Indiana welcome center.

BB should have had enough fuel to get past Indy but this AM her range was dropping. But she hopes it will go back up when we slow around Indy. If not, she will pull off and fuel. I ask if she wants to lead so we do not get separated. She doesn't.

But she does get nervous. She tells me later that she had lost her fuel range and then all of the bars on the fuel gauge. She thought she'd run out on the freeway, and then she missed the light at the exit so she thought she'd be stuck there ... when the light did change, the car ahead of her didn't move and she thought she'd be waiting for another light. NOT the way she likes to drive or usually does drive.

3rd stop was in Shelbyville at the Pilot for fuel. Pumps were full so I finally pulled in along side of someone filling there two gallon jug. My pump was not available yet so I looked at my phone, etc and then got out of my RV. The guy was still filling and said I did not want this pump and when I turned around the person from the car ahead of me said I didn't want their pump.

So when BB found a pump I asked her how low she was on fuel ... she thought she was going to run out at the last traffic light. So she started putting in fuel, I did not. Instead I went in and asked about the fuel pumps. Others had complained but I wanted an answer so they said they would re-start the pumps. They did, and shut everyone off without receipts. We were afraid that would happen so we took a picture before restarting our pump.

Still just as slow. I had walked the fuel pumps and seen a couple of people that got 5-10 gallons in a few minutes so BB moved to one of those pumps. It must have been a fluke as it was just as slow for us. The person on the other side of the second pump said that they had only gotten 10 gallons in 10 minutes and were leaving ... I said they were lucky, the other pumps weren't that fast.

We finally left after 30 minutes, BB knew she now had 2 gallons and could make it to the next truck stop. 2 gallons after 30 minutes. And I needed about 30 gallons. (8 hours?)

4th stop was the Loves in St Peter. Fuel was more here but the pumps worked. BB filled, I put in fuel until I had a range of 460 miles. We have 500 miles to go but I gained about 100 mile range on the last tankful.

Lunch was McDonalds at Loves.

While we were there, there was the shell of a street vendor truck like the ones that passed us this AM. Never saw the driver, he came and left while we were busy.

5th stop was the Pilot in Georgetown. This will be BB's final fuel. We made it from here last time, we should again this time.

While I am waiting for BB I see that there is now a truck in VA heading back to MN. After talking to BB, I call the dispatcher but they do not pick up and never called me back.

No extra miles today because of our half hour delay. BB makes our reservation from here.

Trees are all nice and shiny in the setting sun. Must have already had some recent rain. The rain has been removed from the forecast here for tomorrow, good thing for us.

6th and final stop is the Comfort Inn in London. We were going to order from the Mexican place next door, but the desk clerk recommended the one across the highway. Then BB tried to order from the one next door and decided she wanted food ... now.

So we walked down the street to Fazoli's. As we are waiting for our food I decided I also wanted a cookie. So I went back to the cashier to order one and they handed it to me and said it was on the house ... my first thought was, they could see I had cash in my hand, and they didn't know how to make change.

We have about 280 miles to go tomorrow and it looks like I will be about 60 miles short. Fuel gauge has stayed consistant. I was hoping to gain range but nothing on the first 100 miles.

Load board

US - 188

IA - 31/30

NC - 1

We've talked about the trips heading back home. The one going to MN is not from the manufacture, it is somewhere else. If it is too used, we will not take it. We have had a lot of issues with used tree trucks and we'd be traveling over the weekend. If it is new ... we still have not decided.

IA has started putting trips out, including more to NC/SC. And by the time we get back the weather is supposed to be nicer. If we do a truck back, we wouldn't be ready to leave IA until Tuesday. If we head straight back we could leave IA on Sunday.