Our water heater wasn't working last night. It would start on gas but would shut off within a minute or two. Lucky I didn't burn it out! The problem was that I had bypassed the water heater as part of winterization but forgot to open it up again for our trip, so there was no water in the heater tank.
There must be a good sensor in there that shut the burners off before they damaged the tank. In the morning I opened the valves to fill the tank, and all worked ok. In fact, since then the gas burner has started up better than before.
$1.90 toll on a short section of I94 to I80. This is the first time we've cut across the bottom of the lake, and it worked well. It saved some distance when heading west. We expected to brush by Chicago and I guess we did, but really didn't see any city or any significant traffic today. It would have been tougher because of all the construction, but being Sunday AND Memorial Day weekend, no construction workers were present.
We did almost get sideswiped by an airplane on the highway!
The U-haul truck shown here with the airplane fuselage in tow passed us. When he pulled back over in front of us I think he forgot about the trailer! It was a near miss, good thing our brakes work well.
Good lunch stop at a Dennie's from their seniors menu. 80F at 1pm CDT. The fields are getting bigger. We stopped and changed into shorts. A Walmart stop later too.
We had to try 3 times for a cg tonight. We think we found the sign for our first try, but there was no cg there (we think now we didn't go quite far enough out that road). We got back on I80 for a few miles, turned off to another cg, only to see a sign that they were closed. Back on I80 again, crossed the Mississippi into Iowa to a nice cg near Davenport.
Interstate RV Park is only ½ mile off I80, nicely treed and pretty quiet. It's a Good Sam park, so we signed up again, $12 for a “new” member. $34 included full hookups and WiFi, and a 1 yr Good Sam membership.
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