Up at 6:15 to head to Chicago.  The mountains are pretty this morning.  All foggy.  Got a long way to go still, almost 600 miles and only 9 hours to do it in.  Here’s hoping we don’t hit holiday traffic.

DG:  Found another Motel 6 close to our stop so decided on a room and a shower. No bedbugs this time though. The truck does get pretty small sometimes.

Ordered a pizza and spaghetti from a local Italian place and it was very good.

Watching TV and just having a relaxing evening. Nothing to see here. Move along. Just two people having a relaxing evening.

Interesting thing happened on the highway today. We were traveling north on I-57, speed limit 70 mph so I had my cruise set.  Usually cars are passing me when I’m doing the posted speed limit. I notice a line of cars behind me in the left lane and a longer string of cars directly behind me. The lead car in the left lane was staying about even with the back end of my trailer. This went on for several miles without any change in speed or position.  I thought, “What’s going on here?”  So I start to slow down a bit. The cars in the left lane start to pass me and as soon as I see the State Trooper that was the second car back on the left I realized what was going on. As soon as he cleared the front of my truck he sped on leaving everyone else behind and of course with him gone everybody came around me and sped down the road exceeding the speed limit as usual. Everything was back to normal.