14 May – First travel Day

First day travel, Toledo to ST Cloud MN

Nothing exciting for the first day, rain, wind, cold. Kind of sounds like Ohio 🙂

We hit the road about 8am EST. Traveled west on US-20 to South Bend, IN, then picked up I-94.  Traffic is always heavy around Chicag0.  Finally stopped at St Cloud Minnesota for the night.

We were going to stop at a Walmart, but missed the turnoff so we spent the first night out at a rest area.. Generally, rest stops are OK, but noisy (trucks run motors all night)

We only had one minor problem – a fuse blew for the running lights. I noticed this about 9am.  At the next stop, I  replaced the fuse and had  no problems the rest of the day.  We’ll keep an eye on this.

Totals for the First day – 768 miles traveled – 60.4 gallons – 12.8 mpg (strong winds ,55-60  mph)

Starting weight 6,700 lbs. (Everything, including the kitchen sink)

JOhn & Jodie