Hello from Peoria IL
Saturday Evening – October 30, 2021 (seventh post of this travelogue)
We are at the Fondulac Park Carl Spindler Campground in Peoria, Il (Google Maps).
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We are on our somewhat frantic push from my Boeing assignment in the Philadelphia area to my next assignment in Lincoln next week. It is about 1320 miles and we are about 450 miles from Lincoln.
When things calm down a bit, I will document our stays in Gettysburg and Clarksboro. However, I thought I would make a few observations about the last few days.
We left Clarksboro and made stops in Washington, PA and Richmond, IN. Today we made the drive from Richmond to Peoria. Each leg was about 300 miles.
The weather has not been kind to us. First, there was a “Nor’easter” this week that caused a great deal of flooding in the NJ and PA areas, We got quite a bit of rain but did not get the brunt of the big storm. The past three days we have been driving in some pretty bad rain. Now that we are in Peoria, it is pretty decent. That said, the campground is partly flooded and a couple of the campgrounds we called were closed due to flooding.
Yesterday we went through four states: PA WV, OH and finally IN. Seemed like forever in the rain, but we made it without issues.
I have been battling a problem with the turn signals on the trailer since we left Clarksboro. I traced it down to a problem with the truck. I have spent quite a few hours under the truck in the rain. Got soaking wet and last night I slipped in the “greasy” mud and did a couple of great headers – one in front of Pat {grin}. At three AM this morning I woke up thinking about the problem. I thought surely they would not have the trailer turn signal lights on individual fuses. Well, of course, some far out engineer outdid himself and did just that. All the work under the truck and wiping out a couple of sets of clothes, and it was a simple fuse that took a couple of minutes to change.
Yesterday we were in Richmond and made a stop at Camping World to get some parts for the tail light problem. On the way to the campground (near Camping World), a semi went off the road and destroyed a power pole. No big deal, except the wire dropped on the truck and camper. It did not get tangled up in our unit. I think it was a communication cable, but it sure got our attention.
More to come.