Tuesday, we got up, ate breakfast, put everything away, hooked the truck to the RV, and drove to Topeka, Kansas. There, we unhitched the truck from the trailer, set up the RV, relaxed for a bit, I cooked dinner, we read blogs and checked email, and went to sleep.
Wednesday, we got up, ate breakfast, put everything away, hooked the truck to the RV, and drove to Fulton, Missouri. There, we unhitched the truck from the trailer, set up the RV, relaxed for a bit, I cooked dinner, we read blogs and checked email, then went to sleep.
Today, we got up, ate breakfast, put everything away, hooked the truck to the RV, and drove to Effingham, Illinois. Here, we unhitched the truck from the trailer and set up the RV. Then, something new, we drove to a Chevy dealer and had the Diesel Exhaust Fluid filled, then drove to Walmart to shop for groceries. Then we relaxed, I cooked dinner, we read blogs and checked email. It was cool enough I could walk around the RV park. Now it is time to go to sleep.
Tomorrow will be more of the same. We will get up, eat breakfast, put everything away, hook the truck to the RV, and drive to Anderson, Indiana.
Have you ever heard of Effingham, Illinois? We hadn't. It is at the intersection of I-70 and I-57. I-70, originally the National Road, built entirely with federal government funds between 1811 and about 1830, opened the newly acquired lands of the Louisiana Purchase from the east to the Mississippi River. It eventually became US 40 and now I-70. The most prominent landmark in Effingham is this 198-foot cross.
We are going east on I-70, headed toward Indianapolis. Today, we discovered that the folks at Rand McNally who made our RV GPS don't know how to spell. Look at this:
The computer-generated voice must just sound out letters. We learned we are headed toward "eye-dianopolis." We drove on IL 32, pronounced "eye-el 32." In Colorado, we drive on CO-9, "see-oh 9." We have to learn how to interpret what we hear. We can't wait to get to Arizona and find out how the voice pronounced Ajo. Our previous GPS changed back and forth between "ah-joe" and "ah-ho."
As a teenager in the 70's I would travel from NYC by Greyhound to Effingham, my grandparents lived 15 miles north, in the town my folks just moved to. When the COE park at Lake Shelbyville is closed we will use the campground in Effingham while in the area. Safe travels
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