Wednesday's Trip

We woke up at 4:00 am, got the coffee going and our morning routine done all before 6:00 am. We pulled out at 6:00 am and started our trip to Wisconsin. There was so much smoke in the air from the Canada wild fires that the sun was blood red at 6:30 am while driving through Chillicothe. The phone just doesn't capture the color. Mark tried with his phone too.

 

 We didn't need to stop for gas for the Prius as Mark had just filled it and we only had to drive 320 miles. We stopped around 9:00 am for a quick breakfast at McDonalds. We arrived at the the man's house a little after 11:00 am and talked and talked. We followed him to the bank so he could put the check in, then back to his house to get the paper work done. He took pictures of both Mark and I AND our car just in case the check was a fraud then apologized for doing all of that. We told him in this day and age it makes perfect sense. By the time we left over an hour had passed. 

Traffic going up to Wisconsin was not bad at all but coming home we ran into a lot of traffic, especially around Madison. That was backed up and only running about 50 mph instead of the listed 70. The other problem came once on 39. The construction in one part was bumper to bumper at a crawl or a dead stop for about a half hour. The Transit doesn't get near as good of gas mileage so we had to stop twice to fill it once while still in Wisconsin where gas is only $3.13 a gallon and the second time in Illinois at a Loves where we felt like we got a bargain at $3.39 a gallon. You see at home in Hanna City we are paying $3.85 a gallon. By the time we reached Chillicothe it was almost 6:00 pm and we were famished. We stopped at a Mexican restaurant for dinner and shared a meal. The truck was dropped off at Phil and Anna's and we walked in just in time to get AC Central on and watch Craig Stickling have Peoria's message. At least Mark did. I stretched out on the recliner to listen and fell sound asleep not waking until midnight. It took me a minute to figure out where I was, got up made the coffee for morning and could hardly wait for that soft comfortable bed. At 3:15 am we were awakened with a HUGE CRACK of thunder. Something close was hit. Too bad no rain came with the thunder. At 4:00 am Mark decided to get up and start the coffee make early so for the second morning in a row we are up at 4:00 am.