Saturday, September 24, 2011STATSDeparture: 6:50 am (yes, I really mean that early)Breakfast: Mechanic’s Shed (very nice restaurant in Des Moines)Lunch: Somewhere in the mid-west in the RVDinner: in the RVArrival: 4:00 pm CT, Interstate RV Park, Davenport, IADistance: 189 milesComments: More interesting stuff has happened that makes my eyes spin in opposite directions, so I haven’t been doing the blog. So, let’s see if I can catch up.We had to g...

Friday, September 23, 2011STATSDeparture: 12:00 noon (we’re falling into a habit, here)Breakfast: in the RVLunch: on I-80 at a rest stop, in the RVDinner: in the RVArrival: 5:20 pm CT, Des Moines West KOADistance: 135 milesComments: Today was sooooo much fun. We were on I-80, passing some slow-moving something-or-other, when we heard a sound like something fell out of an overhead cabinet and crashed to the floor. Looking back, we didn’t see anything, ...

Thursday, September 22, 2011STATS Departure: 12:00 noon Breakfast: in the RV Lunch: somewhere along the way in the RV Dinner: in the RV Arrival: 2:30 pm CT, Mahoney State Recreation Area, Ashland, NE Distance: 150 miles Comments: Molli slept all through the night, and so did we. I decided I’d been too hard on her.We really like Mahoney SRA, so we only went 150 miles so that we could stop there. It’s an absolutely beautiful area—we we...

Wednesday, September 21, 2011STATSDeparture: 12:00 noonBreakfast: in the RVLunch: in the RV at a rest stopDinner: in the RVArrival: 5:00 pm CT Windmill State Recreation Area, Gibbon, NEDistance: 160 milesComments: So the dog woke us up at midnight, then again at 4:30, so that she could go outside and smell the night air. She also saw fit to return last night’s dinner onto the floor (too much again?). To provide a reasonable punishment for her, we took her t...

Tuesday, September 20, 2011STATSDeparture: 9:23 amBreakfast: in the RVLunch: in the RV at the Cheyenne Rest Area and Info CenterDinner: in the RVArrival: 4:00 pm MDT Country View Campground, Ogallala, NEDistance: 316 milesComments: It’s Wyoming and Nebraska. We drove. What else is there to say?Oh yeah, the dog had diarrhea last night. Woke us up at 5:30.Was that too much information?