Daily Archives: September 26, 2009
Gypsys, Rallys, and Dennys…
Today was a travel day, the start of a two day trip to Celina, OH where we will spend 6 days at the Eastern Gypsy RV Rally, an RV rally put on by Nick Russell and his wife Terry.
Nick publishes “The Gypsy Journal” a very popular bimonthly RV newsletter and last year started putting on a series of Western Rallys in Arizona and Eastern Rallys in OH.
We attended the Western Rally in Casa Grande, AZ in February 2008, just a week or so after we first hit road on our new RV life.
We did not attend this year’s Western Rally this past February since were going to do the East Coast this year, but we do plan on doing the Western one next year, since we will be out that way.
We left the park about 11 am and drove about 6 miles to a Flying J Truck Stop to fuel up before hitting the Interstate. We put in about 111 gallons and went 990 miles on the last tank. That means we’re getting almost 9 miles to the gallon. Not bad when we weigh almost 31,000 pounds and are pulling a truck weighing almost 6000 pounds.
I mean, what kind of mileage does your home get?
We didn’t get back on the road until about 11:45 due to the slow RV diesel pumps at the Flying J. When I can I like to fill up at the truck pumps because they have bigger nozzles and fill much faster.
When your tank holds 150 gallons, you want to dump the fuel in as fast as possible.
But the truck lanes were very busy and these guys work for a living, running on a tight schedule. So I try to stay out of their way.
So I was in the RV lanes, with a diesel pump that seemed to putting out molasses. It was that slow. After 10 minutes I had only put in 40 gallons.
But finally we were on the road for 3 state trip. We started out in NY, cut about 45 miles across the top left corner of PA, and end up just SE of Cleveland, OH.
We stopped at a rest area Dennys for lunch just before we left NY state. The rest areas here in NY are different. Rather just restrooms and vending machines like most states, NY’s have gas stations and restaurants.
Ours had a McDonalds, a Dennys, a coffee place, and several others.
We arrived at our KOA park about 4 pm. We were able to get a large pull-thru site so that we didn’t have to unhook the toad, since we didn’t plan on going out for dinner.
After getting set up, we let Mister out to roam around a bit.
Streetsboro KOA
That’s him at the bottom right of the picture.
Then it was in for the night and an early start tomorrow.
Later…
