2020 Trip To South Dakota

[JEBar]

on the road again .....

[CT_Shooter]

on the road again .....

Have a safe trip, Jim. Here's wishing you have a wonderful summer on the road.

[Hatchdog]

Safe travels. Heading that way (but from the west) ourselves in Sept. Originally had our trip scheduled for May for postponed due to the virus closing some of the attractions we want to see. I will be looking forward to your reports.

[BigAl52]

Have a safe trip.

[brm4450]

Over night at Lake Poinsett several vehicles and RV’s caught on fire and burned. Nobody hurt just the vehicles burned.

[JEBar]

that must have been a rough fire ===> https://www.keloland.com/news/local-new ... ampground/

[JEBar]

Day 1 is in the books .... 421 miles covered in 7 hrs 35 min with 2 stops .... one for fuel and one just to move around a little .... we are currently set up in Soaring Eagle Campground .... got soaked while setting up and have little desire to get back out this evening .... will try to take some pictures before we pull out in the morning .... this is our first stop in this campground, a separate thread will be started about it .... it misted on us almost all the way .... wipers set to longest duration intermittent wipe .... 400 miles of road grime sure has a way of making a rig look pretty dang grubby .... the drive itself went well .... heavy traffic that moved along well pretty much all the way ....

[JEBar]

our destination for today is Duck Creek RV Park in Paducah, KY .... details in post 1 in this thread .... yesterday we road in the heaviest traffic we've seen in many months .... where we are parked right now, we are very close to I-40 .... from the traffic noise we have no reason to believe today will be any different .... on my way out to take our trash to the dumpster and take a few campground pictures

[JEBar]

after 295.7 miles covered in 5 hrs 9 min, we are once again settled into Duck Creek RV Park in Paducah, KY .... thankfully it was an uneventful day's drive but at the same time, it wasn't an easy one .... we lost most of an half hour idling along a clogged I-24 just northwest of Nashville .... the clog was caused by a wrecked big rig, sure hope the driver is OK .... the worst of it was driving almost all the way into a strong headwind .... no clue as to our truck's mileage today but it can't be much .... as a result, we decided to go out after setting up and take on 20 gallons of fuel .... we probably could have made it the 100+ miles we need to cover tomorrow to get to our next scheduled fuel stop but when it comes to having enough fuel, probably ain't gonna cut it .... rather, having more than enough to get to where we want to go is the way we travel .... as far as our drive from home to Estelline, we are about half way there

[JEBar]

thankfully we have a morning where you don't break into a sweat when you go outside the camper's door .... hopefully breaking camp and hooking up will not be a two shirt event .... no real hurry, we have a 300 mile day on tap that should take 5 hrs or so .... one planned fuel stop about 100 miles after getting on the road .... another walk around stop is certainly possible