Tonight we are comfortably tucked in under the tall trees on Scott AFB just to the east of Saint Louis, in Illinois. We will be with our friends Ron and Jill Sampson tomorrow, who live in Lebanon, IL, and Ron works with the USAF air transport aircraft here on Scott.

We had a 300 mile run down I-44 and it was very smooth with a fairly strong wind from the right side which was manageable. It's hot though at a balmy 87 degrees at 7 pm. We have only a 30 amp power source which prevents us from using two a/c units and the TV and computer, so you have to choose ... I know ... the perils of roughing it!

Here's the basic plan for the next few days. We'll leave here Sunday morning, the 26th and head toward Wright-Patterson AFB in Fairborn, OH. We'll be there Sunday and Monday nights, then heading north toward Michigan and friends in St. Joseph, where we'll be two nights. Then north to Lansing and eventually over to Canada by the 1st of May. The longer trips, ie around 400 miles usually preclude us seeing anyone that night because of RV duties and we stink, so we tend to stay two nights. On the shorter trips we can arrive in time to be sociable the first night. It also depends upon whether the place has full hookups or not ... sometimes making it a lot more work.