Triple Cross

 

We'll get to that in a moment but first here is the blogster on the Navy base near Memphis rolling up the non-functioning front sun screen manually ... the reason we're going to Elkhart to get a new motor for the thing.

 



In spite of that we were off Monday north on 51 and 55 and then finally I-57 toward Mt Vernon Illinois. Below is the center console in the RV with our planning materials handy.

The last two days were the triple cross part of this blog. We first crossed the Mississippi from Arkansas into Tennessee, then back from Tennessee into Missouri as we headed north, and then finally back across the river again from Missouri into Illinois. The picture below is on the Al Gore bridge heading west on I-155 into Missouri.

After a 259 mile day in mostly rain we ended up in Mt Vernon Illinois at the Archway RV park which was a new one for us.

Mostly a flat open gravel place with long level pull-through spots. Easy to get into an out of but with the steady rain it was a mess. Fortunately the place was quite old and had really compacted gravel so the rain didn't make the ground mushy for our 20 ton machine.

On Tuesday heading up I-57 and then I-70 toward Indianapolis the rain and traffic was steady and the truck volume pretty heavy; these guys queuing up for a lane squeeze several miles ahead of them. We did an easy 227 miles at a still steady 9 MPG. Near Effingham we took on 60 gallons of diesel at $2.93 at a Mobile station while the Pilot and Flying J were up to $3.21 a gallon.

We all remember the "hippy" Volkswagen bus of the 60's so here is the 2018 version next to us in the Walmart parking lot near Effingham.

Off tomorrow early for Elkhart and our front screen repair job at the Bradd and Hall RV garage.