About Time to Finish This Up Since It Was About Seven Weeks Ago.
We left home June 8th and even thought about leaving a day later because of the rain predicted in Illinois and Iowa for all day, and it was raining this morning. At least I didn't have to get out and water the plants outside (I had also watered heavily last evening).
Odometer at 93,585. We arrived home June 13th after driving 1,224 miles.
It rained on us all the way through Illinois.
Stopped for lunch in Dekalb, Illinois, and ate at Tom & Jerry's which boasts about how great their gyros are. And, they are every bit as good as advertised, especially with a $5.99 special price right now.
Got gas at $2.75 in Dekalb, then got on I-88, the Ronald Reagan Tollway. Had to pay tolls twice for a total of $3.80 to drive from Dekalb to Dixon where the tollway stops, about 40 miles. That's about 10 cents a mile, a bit steep. It used to be half that until the state came up with their latest money-making scheme several years back to charge double if you don't have an EZ-Pass so you can zoom through the toll stations.
Normally, we don't have to pay this because we take the Lincoln Highway, but we were running way behind schedule due to the late start and wanted to get to Ottumwa, Iowa, where we wanted to continue our search for Radar O'Reilly.
On the Road. --RoadDog
RoadDog's RoadLog Blog: Being my travels down those great two lane highways of this nation as well as news I learn about them from media sources. Since I'm also very interested in historic preservation, there will be a lot of that as well.
The Shamrock Court Motel in Sullivan, Missouri. It can be yours for $125,000. Lots of possibilities. Actually, now you're too late. Missouri's Roamin' Rich bought it.
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