November 3 and 4, 2014

Monday November 3, 2014

On the road again!

The Peace Bridge between Fort Erie, Canada and Buffalo, United States.

 




















The Niagara River, on the left is the USA and on the right is Canada. 

Even with only 3 boots open, it only took us 15 minutes to cross the border.

 The first State we crossed was New York.

One part of the travel was done on a toll highway and the cost was $11.80  for about 100 km.

The next state was Pennsylvania and a stop at Walmart to replenish our food supply.  

We made it to Ohio and stopped to fill up on diesel for the motorhome.  I love the price of diesel even with the exchange rate! 

I know that I keep saying this, but the roads are so nice (most of the time) in the US.  

I had not seen a  glider trailer in a very long time.  

There is nothing wrong to be proud of your country.

Once we were on the other side of Columbus, Ohio, we spent the night at Alton RV Park.  

We are on our way to our site.

Home for the night.

We had spent a night in spring 2014.

Another good day with over 500 km on the road.  Most of the driving was done on the Interstates.

Tuesday November 4, 2014

By 8:30, we were back on the road and on our way to Terre Haute, Indiana. We will be driving of the interstate for a while, US-40 follows I-70, but with less traffic. We really enjoy driving the secondary highways, you see a lot more stuff along the road.

Once we crossed over Indiana, we stopped at Walmart for some food and replenish the alcoholic beverages.

The US-40 is a very nice road and we do go through many little towns.

Of course at certain time we do go back to the interstates and like Canada, they also have a lot of construction going on. 

Indiana, here we come!

 

We are back on US-40.

 


We are at the northern edge of the "Bible Belt".

 

Many of our friends have asked us about driving the secondary roads and does it slow us down in our travel?

Yes, of course it does, but not by that much.  We love it because as I said earlier, we get to see a lot more stuff and for us the trip is as important as the destination.  For those who prefer the interstates, good for them, it is a personal choice and either is better or worst then the other.

 











This one is for our friend Charles...

 

A Tim Horton in the US?

You have to love filling up in the US.

$2.889 US is about $0.76 CDN for the regular and for the diesel at $3.649 US, it is about $0.96 CDN.

It always surprises us when we see abandoned houses right in the middle of little towns! 

As we got closer to Indianapolis, we moved back to the interstate to go around the city.

It started to rain.

Something is wrong because the wipers are slowing down and the dash is lighting up like Christmas!!!

The alternator is not charging the batteries.

We managed to make it to the next exit at the Pilot Travel Plaza.  As soon as we pulled in the parking lot I shut down the engine and it will not restart.
Here is the guilty party!!! 

So, I took it out and went to get a new one…

A local, very big, truck repair shop has one, but it is not exactly the same.  It cost over $700 US!!!

I think I will let them install it and if something goes wrong, it will be their fault, not mine.