Road Trip Day One

I am on the road headed East. Left Kahoka, MO this morning at 6 AM. Fueled up at $3.679 per gallon. Bought some drinks and hit the road. At Quincy, IL we got breakfast at McD's. All of the way thru Illinois we were in heavy rain. The temp dropped to 45 degrees. We headed on into Indiana. The rain stopped finally. We stopped at Crawfordsville for gas and lunch. Lunch was at Burger King. We fueled up again but this time at $4.099 per gallon, ouch! That was $67 gone fast.
After passing thru Columbus, OH, we had stop for a pit stop and grabbed a few drinks and beer.
Finally we landed in Zanesville, OH. It was 5:30 PM EST, so we moved up an hour. The time change was actually in Indiana. SO after 10.5 hours on the road and 609 miles later we have stopped for the day. Everyone else is in the pool and I am relaxing in the room with a cold one.

We are staying in the Baymont Inn and it seems pretty nice. Booked it on Hotels.com. If you plan your trip well in the early stages, you can decide where to stop before you leave and save some money on lodging. We came thru here in 97, so we knew Zanesville was where we would stop for the day.

Been a long day but glad to be stationary. We all have asstritis. Will probably order in a pizza for later. No new gastro adventures today. I did see a blimp headed north but couldn't read the name on it. I think I ate a whole head of celery today just snacking. Luckily I still have carrots, cauliflower and radishes.
I guess one note of importance is that as soon as we passed into Ohio, I started seeing signs for Skyline Chili. Cincinatti claims to be the chili capitol and Skyline is a brand I have seen on a few travel and cooking shows. I think I am going to save my chili for Ben's Chili Bowl in Washington DC.

And as bad as number 2 son was today, I don't think he needs any chili.

Tomorrow we head out aimed for Gettyburg, PA. We are going to tour the battlefield and look for interesting food to eat.

Talk to you later.