Our Maggie was a bit under the weather this morning. Some intestinal distress and general malaise. She got to feeling better after lunch and seemed pretty much back to her normal self by dinner time. She spent the afternoon outside watching squirrels and birds. We have no idea what she hoovered in while we were walking yesterday that would have upset her tummy. She sees something and it is gone before we even are aware there's something there. I suspect she'll be fine tomorrow.
We found a real grocery store - as in not a Walmart - today and picked up a few things. We drove around a bit and the area seems very nice. Huge lots with nice homes. Several strip malls along our route with the usual food/haircut/stores in them. Of course there were lots of fast food places as well. We did see three Mexican restaurants which surprised me for some reason. Maybe because we are near an Army post that there are so many? It looks as if this is a big corn producing area because all the fields we saw had corn which needs to step up its growing or it won't be knee high by the fourth of July.
After we had lunch Rog checked out the systems on the truck to make sure all is in working order. I spent a couple hours on google maps and rvparkreviews finding places for our next two stops. Right now the plan is tomorrow we will overnight in Mount Vernon, IL, which is midway across the state. We will be leaving here and going north across Kentucky into Evansville, IN before turning west into Illinois. That allows us to add two more states tomorrow!! Two down, two to go. On Saturday we will stay in Quincy, IL - across the Mississippi River from Hannibal, MO. We plan on two nights there and a day of hanging out looking for Becky Thatcher's house or Tom Sawyer's whitewashed fence or both! It should be fun.
I finished a book this afternoon that I'm not sure I totally understood when I finished it. It was an Australian mystery by an award winning author that I was introduced to in the OLLI book group, but I did have trouble following it. I will start a new one tonight. "The Last Painting of Sara De Vos" by Dominic Smith. Saw good reviews ("...suspenseful story of one painting's rippling impact on three people over multiple centuries and locations...") and bought it before we left. I'm looking forward to getting into it and hope I'm not confused when I finish as I was with the last one.
We are discussing the possibility of a new RV when we get home - one that will work better for wintering. Something with more insulation. Just talking about it for now. Got lots of time to discuss and research and figure out if that is what we want to do. It's a big decision as we also will be doing improvements on our Arizona lot this year. But, this will give Rog lots to think about and lots of You Tube videos to watch before we decide yay or nay.
Traffic noise didn't bother us too much last night. RV was all closed up with the A/C on. Rog slept with his deaf ear up, so that helped him block out the sound. I had a small fan running in the bedroom that made some white noise and that helped. Hopefully the next stop will be quieter. It's too bad, too, because otherwise this is a very nice campground - one of the nicest we've been in.
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