2 RV's to Greer SC

... spending the night at Batesville IN

BB had the alarm set for 5:30 but is up at 5 AM. When I wake up at 5:30 we decide to skip breakfast and leave at 6 AM. The weather warning has been moved to start at 6 AM instead of 9 AM.

Not a good start to the day, the front desk clerk is somewhere cleaning rooms and when there are finally three of us waiting, one of us gets the cook to go look for them. Not sure why they thought checkout time was a good time to clean. I'm first in line and they have to look up to see that I am being billed for the correct room which all takes time. BB is walking in to look for me when I'm finally walking out.

I notice something on my windshield early on but realize it is salt spray. Within the hour it starts to rain and I kick off the cruise. We had agreed to stop in Cedar Rapids if it took two hours to get there, it only took one.

The temp dropped from 33 to 31 and it was still raining when we got to Davenport.

1st stop was the Loves in Davenport for fuel. Plan had been to eat breakfast here because we skipped breakfast this AM. But the storm is still dropping south and we want to get out of the area before it gets worse.

Over half the day we are driving under the speed limit because of the heavy rains. We did see three cars and one semi in the ditch which were likely caused by the heavy rains.

2nd stop was in Morton at the Stake-n-Shake. 10:30 local. We are their only customers. Inside, when we left we saw that there was a line at the drivethru.

Not sure why but it took 45 minutes today.

One of the dispatchers called while I was driving, they did not leave a message. They/he is the MN dispatcher but right now they have more trips out of GA, WI and other places than out of MN. I haven't called them back.

3rd stop was at Oakwood at the Loves for fuel.

We went through Indy close to rush hour and not much of a slow down. BB enjoyed not watching her fuel gauge this trip. Last trip she was on 'E.'

4th stop was at the Loves in St Peter for ... to decide how far we want to go yet tonight. We had planned on stopping at a place we already past, but that was before we got going at 6 AM.

Now the wind has picked up so we still decide to call it a day, at the next town.

5th and final stop is the Quality Inn in Batesville. We walk two doors down and get Skyline Chili. Lots of staff. We order ours to go. I think it is better than any other fast food chili. BB wasn't impressed. Easy cooking. They put our chili in a cup and all the fixings are in individual containers. Both BB and I had the same thing. Basic chili. Next time I might try the one with noodles on it.

Load board

US - 306

IA - 161/157

MN - 2

WI - 17

Tomorrow we now have less than 500 miles to go so we should be near the drop overnight.

We want to go west when we get back but I-80 is expected to be closed at least another two days and CA looks to be getting hit storm after storm which then head to WY. We could do back to back SC trips. There had been 8 to Greer when we took ours, those went quickly. Now tonight there are 10 more to Greer.

We will likely hold out for southern CA or AZ. They could put out another 100 or two before we need to grab them for Sunday.