Hello from Peoria IL<\/p>\n
Saturday Evening \u2013 October 30, 2021\u00a0\u00a0 (seventh post of this travelogue)<\/p>\n
We are at the Fondulac Park Carl Spindler Campground in Peoria, Il (Google Maps)<\/a>.<\/p>\n {google_map}40.7109, -89.5374{\/google_map}<\/p>\n We are on our somewhat frantic push from my Boeing assignment in the Philadelphia area to my next assignment in Lincoln next week.\u00a0 It is about 1320 miles and we are about 450 miles from Lincoln.<\/p>\n When things calm down a bit, I will document our stays in Gettysburg and Clarksboro.\u00a0 However, I thought I would make a few observations about the last few days.<\/p>\n We left Clarksboro and made stops in Washington, PA and Richmond, IN.\u00a0 Today we made the drive from Richmond to Peoria.\u00a0 Each leg was about 300 miles.<\/p>\n The weather has not been kind to us.\u00a0 First, there was a \u201cNor\u2019easter\u201d this week that caused a great deal of flooding\u00a0 in the NJ and PA areas,\u00a0 We got quite a bit of rain but did not get the brunt of the big storm.\u00a0 The past three days we have been driving in some pretty bad rain.\u00a0 Now that we are in Peoria, it is pretty decent.\u00a0 That said, the campground is partly flooded and a couple of the campgrounds we called were closed due to flooding.<\/p>\n Yesterday we went through four states: PA WV, OH and finally IN.\u00a0 Seemed like forever in the rain, but we made it without issues.<\/p>\n I have been battling a problem with the turn signals on the trailer since we left Clarksboro.\u00a0 I traced it down to a problem with the truck.\u00a0 I have spent quite a few hours under the truck in the rain.\u00a0 Got soaking wet and last night I slipped in the \u201cgreasy\u201d mud and did a couple of great headers \u2013 one in front of Pat {grin}.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 Well, of course, some far out engineer outdid himself and did just that.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n Yesterday we were in Richmond and made a stop at Camping World to get some parts for the tail light problem.\u00a0 On the way to the campground (near Camping World), a semi went off the road and destroyed a power pole.\u00a0 No big deal, except the wire dropped on the truck and camper.\u00a0 It did not get tangled up in our unit.\u00a0 I think it was a communication cable, but it sure got our attention.<\/p>\n More to\u00a0 come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hello from Peoria IL Saturday Evening \u2013 October 30, 2021\u00a0\u00a0 (seventh post of this travelogue) We are at the Fondulac Park Carl Spindler Campground in Peoria, Il (Google Maps). {google_map}40.7109, -89.5374{\/google_map} We are on our somewhat frantic push from my … Continue reading