Today was purely a travel day. No fun diversions just big, wide, interstates. Occasionally, barnstormers just need to reposition themselves. Like a big cruise ship needs to move to bluer waters, barnstormers need greener pastures. Today we left Cleveland at a very civilized hour, 8:30 ish and headed to suburban Chicago to spend some time with my family.
Since we don't have anything fun to tell you about, we thought we would share with you the price variety and volatility we have noticed recently in gasoline prices. For those of you who don't spend much time in New Jersey let me just say it is my favorite state to purchase gas. The taxes are low so the price is low (almost always lower than neighboring PA) but NJ also requires that gas be pumped by a gas station employee, no self-service in NJ. So, on those really cold or really hot days the NJ gas consumer can stay in the comfort of their climate controlled car! Yippee.
CT had some pretty expensive gas, as I recall. The cheap stuff, which is what we put in the Subaru, was almost $4 a gallon last week. OH was the cheapest at less than $3.50/gallon. It has been a long time since we saw prices this low back home.
CT had some pretty expensive gas, as I recall. The cheap stuff, which is what we put in the Subaru, was almost $4 a gallon last week. OH was the cheapest at less than $3.50/gallon. It has been a long time since we saw prices this low back home.
Gas in IN was firmly in the middle of OH and CT prices, at $3.69/gallon.
The scenery was pretty much what you would expect from an interstate.... road signs galore
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| Although that looks like a person riding atop a car, it's some sort of machine to clear debris off a racetrack |
Photography from a car driving almost 80 mph is a skill I'm still working on mastering! But look, no rain and little traffic. Except for the trucks. Lester was very impressed by the size of the trucks in the midwest.
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| Looks like a train, but it's a truck |
The three container trucks have containers that are less than 53 feet long. The two container UPS truck is two 53 footers. Lester always gets a kick out of the fact that I can drop that phrase... 53 footer. I picked it up during my GVI days; and I enjoy getting the laugh out of him when I say 53 footer.
I was more interested in the farms that lined the roads in both OH and IN. I was actually impressed by their picturesqueness....
Not VT, but not bad for an interstate.
And of course we had some lovely views of Chicago as we drove by....
And so we find ourselves repositioned for the time being. Nana cooked a lovely dinner of corn on the cob and grilled chicken. Uncle Tommy joined us after leaving work early. Tomorrow will we see Uncle Nick and Aunt Ada for a family confab. So, there really won't be anything to add tomorrow giving me a day off the blog. Lester will be catching up on housekeeping while I'm away. Oil change, bill paying, laundry, etc.
Sweet, we have gone from running a little behind in posting these daily entries to being a day ahead in no time at all. We'll be back on Friday since we will be leaving the Chicagoland area and heading to our next stop....WI here we come.
A&L
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