I’m getting down to not many days to go a lot of miles, so today was just a business-like day of driving across the flat and boring part of the country.\u00a0 The area where I started, around the Kankakee River, was interesting.\u00a0 I ate at a classic diner in the morming, in the town of Momice, loking across the busy highway at the river.\u00a0 It looked very inviting from a distance, but the waitress said it’s too polluted to swim in.<\/p>\n

At the end of the day I opted for my first (and only so far) commercial campground.\u00a0 gack!<\/em> $25, but I am having fun here — shoot hoopskis at their tacky little basketball court (today’s NPR profile on Justice John Paul Stevens playing tennis in his 90’s shamed me), learn my iPad, and get some pre-reunion excitement!\u00a0 I got a call from East Side Johnny Avault.<\/p>\n

It is a nice campground really, the fellow that tools around in his electric golf card to get into everyone’s bizness was very nice, the bathroom was very clean and heated, nice shower, nice hookups.\u00a0 This is a van milestone<\/em> because this is the first time I have plugged it into outside power, and thus the first time to flip the electric control switch to Shore Power<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0 This gave me a nice feeling of electrical abundance, so I ate a microwave-intensive meal, heating up the rest of the Trader Joe’s soup I had cleaned out of my refrigerator (yummy!).\u00a0 The microwave sucks the battery power pretty quickly.<\/p>\n

Tuesday<\/h3>\n

Ok, today I finally feel stressed.\u00a0 No more of this country road shit, gotta plug into the interstate highway system and go for it.\u00a0 Raining pretty hard – nice.\u00a0\u00a0 Stop at the Pennsylvania Information place, very glad I did, the kid hooked me up with the location of a Walmart 120 miles away that allows overnighting.\u00a0 I got there just about at dark, i.e. perfect timing, and it’s darned pleasant.\u00a0 I am happy!<\/p>\n

I’m rapidly becoming a pretty big Walmart camping fan, both times have been excellent experiences.<\/p>\n

One last really long and tiring haul, over the other half of Pennsylvania, the bottom of New York, across the Hudson at Poughkipsee, through the middle of Conneticut, finally Providence then about an hour after dark, Fall River.<\/p>\n

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