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Twenty five dollars in tolls to get through Ohio? Really?

On an interstate?  One of those roads that gets federal dollars?

Tolls? whats next... ill have to answer three questions to get through indiana?  Geez.

Welcome to the heartland?

Well at least the driving was much easier with everything being... Um... Well... Really pretty flat but at least gas is much cheaper.

Today and yesterday we learned that;

the pronunciation of the city or town of du bois is "doo boys" and high school sports are reported on the radio even down to cross county. Yikes.

The Ohio road crews shut down miles and miles of perfectly good highway feigning "road work" with nary a construction vehicle in sight.

Panera at a truck stop is way better than subway but subways are much more plentiful.

We sort of miss satellite radio.  

I hate those commercials on fm radio where the yell at you.

Country music stations are the loudest... Gah.

There is an RV museum and hall of fame.

The cats can be on the bed at night but everyone sleeps better if lula gets on the bed in the morning.

On our way leaving Hubbard we ran into jean at the grocery store 

"Brian, I think I see jean heading this way. I hope she has cookies."

she stopped by the rv to greet lula and told us some more delightful stories. Especially funny was the story of Mizz Dorothy the rather plus sized southern belle who thought the sound of the night freight train was a tornado and wedged herself into a small shower enclosure seeking safe shelter and had to be extricated with the assistance of a quart of baby oil.  She said she doubted the truth of the story as it was told to her by Mizz Dorothy's husband.  But then the story was retold to her by Mizz Dorothy herself several days later with all the right details.

So we find ourselves in the Elkhart campground surrounded by RVs and without the charm of chestnut ridge.   The water here looks pretty iffy.

The view off of the poop deck shows a sea of RVs in all directions.

Today we try to make the Des Moines area after we replace some rv items (universal sewerage hookup elbow and the thingie that protects priscilla from high water pressure) that i left behind in true newb fashion.  The RV dealership people told me that might happen.  Here buy these things, you'll need them but being a beginner, you'll probably leave them be hind somewhere. Check!

Onward!