7/25 - We are on our way to visit John's last of 4 siblings in Nekoosa, Wisconsin. After leaving the Minneapolis area, we travel south on Route 94 and skip across on Route 54E (plod is more like it, we are on back roads in this rural area), to visit sister Judy (and Bill) who live in a lovely lake community in a cute A-frame cabin. We relax for a while in Bill's boat then take a cool ride in his 1968 cherry red Camaro convertible to have dinner by the lake. Many more trees and less open land in Wisconsin than we have seen for the majority of our trip and the crop around here is cranberry. Acres and acres of bogs, farmed for Ocean Spray. Don't see many cows along our route but they must be somewhere since Wisconsin is known for its cheese!7/26 - A long day of travel from WI, IL, IN to OH. It's 4 weeks today since we left Virginia; as we pass Chicago we have gone 6,000 MILES. Our minds and body are getting numb. Thank goodness we are nearing the end of this push. Went for 8 hours (which is long for us) today to try and get as much road behind us as possible. On Route 90, Ohio rest areas have RV parking so we stayed there to save driving off the route to a campground. This was fine as a last resort, but the 24 rest area was buzzing with cars and trucks all night long so "rest" was not so good.
As you can imagine, at 11 MPG we stop for gas a lot but it doesn't always align with our (my) need for a rest room. We stopped at a rest area under construction which said "no truck parking" but I HAD to go. Well, John stopped to let me out while he stayed in the truck trying to find a place to pull over. There was none! When I came out he was no where to be seen. I followed the road through the rest area and see him creeping onto the highway entrance ramp backing up a LONG line of traffic behind him. I take off running and catch up right before he is on the highway. Oh my, oh my, oh my! We cracked up laughing.
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