Day 2385

Sunday, April 14th, 2024

Day 6 of our trek north

Dear Journal:

Well there was no knock on the coach door overnight, and because of the no overnight parking signs we had a very quiet night, although I was up early this morning but that had more to do with going to bed earlier than usual. The temperature overnight was 64ºF (17.7ºC) and a balmy 71ºF (21.6ºC) in the coach. This morning has been spent catching up on this weeks blogs as we trek to our summer home base. It’s now seven o’clock and Miss Laurie has risen and made coffee, and now we are settling in to watch Willie Guise on NBC, a Sunday morning tradition.

Bacon and Tomato sandwich for breakfast this morning, always a popular choice in the Buchanan household, todays route will move us through Illinois into Indiana where we will move to our final time zone Eastern Daylight Savings time. I’m hoping to be on the road by nine o’clock and with the lost hour we should be at tonight’s destination by 2:00 there will be a fuel stop in Indiana, and I hope to circumvent Indianapolis before we end the day, leaving a very easy day tomorrow.

We were on the road ahead of schedule, and I-70 traffic seams lite, Thunder is running well and we are just clicking the miles off. The smooth ride went to hell at the Indiana State line as I’m thinking that Indiana may have moved New Mexico out of the number one position for the worst roads, maybe someone should tell Indiana that the Federal Government have money available for roads, we have seen the signs posted in almost every other State.

Fuel prices in Indiana are the worse we have seen, higher than Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, they are close to California or Canadian prices. As we get to Indianapolis Navi is recommending the by-pass which we have taken the last few trips so I was not thrilled to find miles of construction on the by-pass. The only good part of this scenario was that it is Sunday and the traffic was lite, as we leave the bypass and head north on Interstate I-69 we are just a few miles from tonight’s destination a Cracker Barrel in Fishers Indiana, and of course the RV / Bus spots were full of cars, so we parked in a plaza near by to watch the Masters golf tournament and wait for a spot to open up.

After the golf was over we moved across the street to an open spot where we eat the beef brisket from Buc-ee’s that Laurie had picked up along with a salad, my conclusion is that the hype over the brisket is justified and we will be getting more the next time we stop. We are settled in to just watch television tonight, I was pleased with the outcome of the golf tournament, and it has me thinking about playing a round or two this summer.

Day 6 Stats: 245 miles (395 kilometers), solar harvest 273 amp / hours, camping cost $0.00 (breakfast $19,00), 47.366 gallons (179.29 liters) of diesel fuel $208.26 ($286.24 Cdn)