Day 2 of the big adventure was the only day that was not completely planned out. You see there is this little city named Chicago that is right in our path and we had to make a decision that morning as to whether we would go through Chicago that day or wait until the next morning to do that. Even on I90 toll road we were going to be in traffic that would, at best, take us an extra hour or two to go through. Last year when we went through Chicago at mid day it took us more than 2 hours,. Rush hour on the toll road would not be much better. So we decided to leave Chicago for tomorrow. I also threw out the idea of going south of Chicago, through Iowa the next day and avoid the traffic all together. It would add a little distance onto the trip but, in the long run, save us time. We decided to wait to make that decision until that night. It was decided our target for the end of Day 2 would be Laporte Indiana.
We got a reasonably early start to the day and it didn’t take long before we were in Cleveland. We awoke to heavy fog and it was just starting to completely lift as we arrived in the city. The tops of the building on the skyline were stilled shrouded in fog, though.
the highway wound down past the waterfront and Lake Erie looked calm. Of course what I could see was within a break water so one would expect it to be calm....
One last picture of the skyline....
After Cleveland there really was not much to see except open roads. We did pass close to their airport and saw a plan coming in for a landing. When all you see is road this can be exciting!
Sometimes things that we see along the way make me curios. For example, both yesterday and today we passed a few windmills. For every one windmill we saw that was working we saw 2 more that were just sitting still. It would seem to me that if you went to the expense of installing one you would want to have it running so it would give you some return on your investment?
Another thing we noticed through both Ohio and Indiana was the use of triple trailers. These were the only 2 states so far where we have seen theses and there were a lot of them. Up until this point we have not seen any double trailered trucks that are so common on Ontario roads.
There really wasn't much else to comment on. the roads in Ohio were, for the most part good. We talked about how much they seemed to work on the roads in Ohio and figured it was because it was a toll road people expected more. That seemed very plausible until we entered Indiana. Those roads were probably the worse we have ever been on with the RV and it didn;t matter whether we were on a stretch of toll highway or just regular highway it was just bad. The contents of our RV were nicely rearranged throughout the day - even the stuff that was what I thought was securely stowed away. For example our plates are in the cupboard with a piece of anti-skid material between each plate so they do not shift. My small plates usually sit on top of the dinner plates. After only part of a day on the Indiana roads I found my bread plates had jumped off the dinner plates and now were standing up at the back of the cupboard. Luckily nothing was broken.
What I thought was going to be a short driving day was still 7 hours on the road. We amused ourselves but looking for more prancing animals. We also saw signs that said we were to watch for wild trucks. We didn't see any of those either. 😏😉
We arrived at our campground at around 3:00 pm which gave us time to make a run to the local Walmart. As we were checking out Rick took out a piece of ID and said because he was shopping in the town that was named after his family he should get a 50% discount! I think the cashier thought he was serious because she said "Sir, I don't have that code!"
We headed back to our camp, had a nice dinner and then discussed the travel plans for the next day. Rick reviewed the maps and travel times and we decided to leave I90 and travel south on I80 to bi-pass the traffic in Chicago. With that plan made, we retired for the evening.
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