WEDNESDAY, SEPT 25

WEDNESDAY, SEPT 25:

     Drove just over 550 miles today.  Crossed So Dakota and most of Iowa (north to south).  Windy again in places, so we couldn’t go faster than 45 sometimes, even with the pedal floored.    Lots of cornfields.  That brilliant, blue sky which has canopied us for months now is gone – a typical Midwestern anemic, washed-out blue has replaced it. L  But means we’re getting closer to home J   Stopped a few miles south of Council Bluffs IA.  Had a heckuva time finding a campground tonight.  The only ones we could find in the Good Sam book around Council Bluffs were State Parks, with no hook-up’s, mostly small back-in sites, it sounded like, and several miles from the interstate.  And it was starting to get dark, so we didn’t know how much trouble we’d have locating them on back roads, etc.

     We’d about decided we were going to drive into St. Joseph MO, even though we knew it would be dark when we got there; the RV Park I called there was right off the Interstate, and the owner said it was easy to find, and had some pull-thru sites, so it wouldn’t be hard to get to. So we resolved to drive another couple of hours.  But just then, an Angel intervened, and called our attention to a sign on I-29 which said “RV Park” at the next off-ramp.  So we followed the signs, crossed over the border into Nebraska, and found it.  Even so, it was nearly 8:30 . . . actually, the clock said 9:30 since we crossed a time zone.

     Fixed chili stuffed potatoes, and relaxed a little and went to bed.