2 RV's to Seffner FL (Sunday)

... spending the night at Brownsburg IN

I wake up during the night and look at the clock, it's around 3 AM. I wake up again when BB is getting up and it looks like it is around 3 AM. Why is she getting up and staying up so early. I drift in and out and look at the clock again. It is almost 6 AM, it had been 5 AM when BB got up, but it hadn't registered that it had to be later the second time I woke up.

Breakfast was good, eggs and sausage. There were two kinds of yogurt but none for me today. Also they had bakery fresh donuts. Both BB and I got one for the road and one bottle of water for the road.

They are re-doing this hotel and let us know during check-in to let them know if anything was amiss. So I did when I checked out. The smoke alarm should not be covered once it is a rentable room.

When most hotels do this they put the storage containers off to one side, this place had them set up in the parking lot like it was a splat ball course, all over the place.

We pulled out at 7 local (6 AM home time,) it was still dark.

We had planned our whole day for the least number of stops. We had a range of over 150 miles and there was a Loves truckstop 140 miles away. That didn't work so well because the 50 mpg we were getting when the temp was in the 60-70's and dropped to 30 mpg with the temp in the 30's.

1st stop is the Loves in Oakwood for fuel. My rewards card does get us the $.10 discount. That's nice to know.

2nd stop was a rest area near Williamsfield IL.

Somewhere before Davenport we are talking about where we will stop for food and for some reason 'butter' came up. That is when I remembered that we had left all our leftover food in the hotel fridge. A cup of fresh fruit, banana bread and better, bacon, chicken sausage. By then we are four hours down the road, that was enough good food that it could have been lunch.

3rd stop was for more fuel at another Loves, this time in Davenport. Still too early to eat.

We left town in a hurry earlier in the week. Now we can see what the weather did do after we left. Four days later and the trees, grass and fences are still hanging with ice from the last storm. The sun has burned off some of the ice but mostly on the west side of the trees.

4th stop is the Loves and Wendy's in Waterloo for fuel and food. We had planned on stopping at the Flying J but all they have is shelf food, not even a sandwich shop. So we added a couple of extra miles to get cheaper fuel and better food, all in one place.

BB went in to order food while I added fuel. Four gallons, WOW. But now we can get home without adding more. This place was fast on the food. After BB ordered, she went to fill up her soda cup and while she was trying to get the cover onto her cup, they called her name, her food was ready.

We've been kind of timing our stops and most are about five minutes in the store and about 10 minutes from exit to entrance to the freeway.

BB is always watching the weather and we are glad we did not go west. Anywhere west. Now she is looking at where we are going. High winds on Monday that will likely shut us down. So we finally decided we would go home tonight and get a later start tomorrow. It will be one less night in a hotel and hopefully a lot less time sitting. The winds should only be an issue on Monday between St Louis and Nashville. As of today, we will be delayed enough that we will deliver on Thursday instead of Wednesday.

We've also talked about staying in FL because we have been on the road for a few weeks without any real breaks. But the temps are going to be in the 80's and BB is packed for winter. Think snow boots on the beach :) Now that we are going home we could pack some warm weather clothes. As of now we have a car straight back.

5th stop is the lot to pick up our car. We are in and out of there in a few minutes. Five RV's waiting and ready to pull out. Five office people are working again instead of the one on most weekends.

Our lot's are now full and the over-flow area's are not empty, there are more RV's to be brought over before the end of day Tuesday. Tuesday would be the end of their quarter.

I need to get a clinic visit in and I had hoped we were heading west so we'd be gone a few more weeks. We aren't heading west but I stuck to stopping anyways.

6th stop was my clinic. I wasn't sure they would take me in with less than a half hour before close. They did, this time so that is done. But now they want me back in two weeks instead of the usual two months, not what I wanted to hear.

BB got a couple of minutes ahead of me because of me stopping at the clinic so she was ready and waiting. So were a lot of other people, waiting. Not sure if something has changed but now there are a dozen plus cars parking in one of the travel lanes where no one could park since 911.

7th stop was Noodles and Co for food

8th and final stop is home. Someone has snow blown our driveway. Our house guest had shoveled the earlier snow and then had gotten a few feet of the heavier snow before quitting/taking a break. Not sure who done it, yet. But thank you.

Load board

US - 423

IA - 267/265

Tomorrow, Sunday, we plan on leaving first thing and should get most of the way to St Louis. So we still may be sitting a day depending on how close the forecast is. With these RV's we need to shut down when the wind speeds get to high. The forecast is to be 'too high.'