October 16, 2004

October 16, 2004

Findlay, Ohio to Georgetown, Kentucky

Day 121

 

Poor Joanne. She's had a cold for the last few days, and it reached its peak today. She was really feeling miserable. Maybe that would partially explain her assessment of Ohio, which we travelled through yesterday and today. "Flat, ugly, and nothing going for it". Now we've both had our first "on the road" illness. Me with the flu recently, and now her with a cold.

It was brutally cold over night and this morning, with very high winds. We used the new portable propane heater we bought yesterday at Camping World, to use as a supplement or replacement for the trailer furnace when we're "boon docking". It worked quite well.

We left Findlay, Ohio this morning travelling south on I-75. We stopped at Flying J at Beaverdam, Ohio, to empty the holding tanks, refill the fresh water tank, and fill up with diesel. We stopped again at Troy, Ohio, for a lot of replenishment shopping at a Wal-Mart Super Centre. I've never been in a Wal-Mart Super Centre. It's massively huge, and includes a very large, full line supermarket within the store. We needed a lot of a lot, because we ran the cupboards bare for crossing the border yesterday. We had lunch in the Wal-Mart parking lot, then drove to a nearby Superpetz for cat food. We continued south on I-75, through Dayton, then Cincinnati, and finally, late in the afternoon, into Kentucky. Just after we went through Cincinnati, there was a terrible accident on the other side of the Interstate involving a motor home that had flipped and rolled. I think that’s the first time we’ve seen a highway accident involving an RV. There were many emergency vehicles, and the radio reported a few minutes after we went by that they were going to have to close the highway because of the accident, and that a medical emergency rescue helicopter would be arriving at the scene shortly.

I noticed a pronounced "Midwest" accent in Ohio, but I didn't have any difficulty understanding what people were saying. I don't know what to call the accent here in Kentucky. I'm having some difficulty understanding what's being said because of the accent. Kentucky's landscape is quite scenic. Rolling hills, lots of cedar trees / bushes mixed into the forest. Tall, sculptured looking cedars, the kind that we buy back home as "ornamental cedars", and meticulously trim and prune to keep them looking "sculptured". They grow wild in the ditches here, and look more "sculpted" in the wild than the ones on our lawns. We’re now about 650 km. / 400 mi. south of where we started yesterday in Ontario, and the fall foliage colours are just peaking here. They peaked in Ontario about a week ago. By the time we left yesterday morning, the colours were faded, and a lot of leaves had fallen.

We’ve stopped for the night at a highway rest area with a 4 hour limit. We want to stay over night and see if any one “rousts” us. I can’t see how, or even why, they would enforce the 4 hour limit. I hope the regulation exists only to be used when it’s necessary to get rid of “trouble”. If we get rousted, I have a plan “B”. I always have a plan “B”! Actually, I must confess. Tonight’s plan “B” was Joanne’s.

DSK