August 2 - Plot a route west

While we were out exploring yesterday, the campsite next to ours was occupied. Rich and I noted that both the camper and car were brand new. It made us think back 59 days to our first night in our camper. We had struggled to get everything working correctly. We later discovered that our neighbor was experiencing the same teething problems we had had. We spent an half hour helping them get water pressure in their pipes. Once we finally got on the road we were not really concentrating on our route – we were just following the prompts from the GPS. Before we knew it we were crossing back into Canada. We drove across Ontario and exited just north of Detroit. The border guards seemed to ask fewer questions each time we met them. Gas prices in Michigan are so much more affordable compared to New York! What a joy to pay only 3.77 a gallon!
Keeping up with the blogging has become a breeze. Rich does all the driving which leaves me free to type and prepare pictures. We still struggle to find WiFi connections to upload the content to the web.
We planned to overnight just before Chicago, only to find out that all campgrounds were full. Finally we resorted to pulling off in a rest stop and settling down for the night. It was incredibly quiet and by morning we looked out the door to see numerous cars and trucks had overnighted as well.(pic) It seems a pretty common way of getting some sleep.