Monday April 1st, morning heading West
Heading West i-90, weather’s overcast, which actually makes driving easier, no bright sunlight in the eyes.. quick stop at the Mohawk rest area right now as I type this.
Had a nice visit yesterday at Chuck and Bea’s. Kris and Glenn came over for the Easter dinner mid afternoon (ham, mashed potatoes, rolls, corn, and green beans….followed by gluten free apple pie and ice cream. pie was good)
Slept out in the truck, and per my watch, I slept well. over 2 hours of REM and 1 hour deep sleep, which for me is really, really good. I wore sweat pants, a fleece jacket, as well as my synthetic down hoodie and booties, and my wool fingerless gloves. so even thougth I just had my goose down quilt rated for 40F, i was actually comfortably warm as temps got down to 34F overnight. I find the inside of the tent is almost 10 degrees warmer when it’s not windy out, and it wasn’t.
I had my last “real” shower for a few weeks, before heading out this morning. grabbed a quick breakfast at McD’s.
Anyway back to the driving. shooting for the cracker barrel near Dayton Ohio today, along i-70. then tomorrow, I’ll be at st louis at a reasonable time for a bbq dinner. yum!
Monday April 1st, Dayton Ohio
Made it to the cracker barrel in Dayton Ohio. 10+ hours of driving. lunch was a veggie footlong from subway and dinner was a personal supreme pizza from one of those tiny pizza huts at a big gas station.
it’s only 7:30 p.m., but I’m going to set up the tent and try to stay awake until 9. we’ll see how it goes. I think I left Glenmont at 7:30a.m. so I killed about 2 hours with food, biobreaks, and gas stops
tomorrow, i’ll get some breakfast at the CB here, but I’ll bring in a takeaway container. the breakfasts are always ridiculously huge, so I plan on eating the leftovers for lunch at some point. I plan on saving my appetite for bbq in St Louis, which is about 6 hours away.
we’ll see how I feel after that. I have about another 700 miles to get to Bentonville AR. talking w Jeff it may not be as crazy busy there as i feared, looks like storms will be sweeping through Texas and Arkansas on the Eclipse day, but it shouldn’t be too bad in northern Arkansas, but enough clouds to drive away the amateur photographers.
Almost finished the “Fall of Hyperion” audiobook. i don’t know, I never quite got into it. I think Iain Banks' Culture series is superior.
I did text w Jeff some after I ate dinner (voice to text via the fancy Ford Sync system)
he got his van back, and I was off before, forgot his new batteries are 120amps each, so 480 amps total. so 5760 watt hours (12volts * 480 amp hours)
more than 3 times what he had before. he hasn’t tested yet, but it looks like the new alternator can add 190amps/hour, so it’ll be a little less than 2.5 hours of driving to fully recharge, if he ever completely drains them.
anyway, ttyl (talk to you later)
