Day 2 driving

October 23 – Another day like yesterday.  We left by 9:30, dropped off the trash and put a postcard in the mailbox and got back on I-20 for our 329 mile drive.  The scenery improved greatly as we had tall green trees and fields of green grass.  Traffic got less the further we got.  No big cities along the way as we crossed over into Mississippi and across the Mississippi River.

We couldn’t time our stops as well as yesterday so had lunch in a rest area and later stopped for fuel.  As we waited for our turn at the pump we had an older black man show us his photo in the military at Ft. Knox and his driver’s license and asked us for some help to get him and his wife back to Alabama.  We don’t normally cave but Bill gave him $5.  Later we saw him with a food bag headed back to his car.  Right after he left us a 40ish woman told us her story of their tire getting a piece of metal in it and the place next door was able to repair it but they were short $21 to repair it.  She looked pretty normal so Bill gave her $2.  He said all he had left was $20’s so he gave her what he had.  This has NEVER happened to us before at a truck stop and to have 2 in one stop was bizarre!

We took I-20 to Rt. 45 and then to Rt. 84.  RT 45 was 4 lanes and a rather ghostly road with

Cotton from the RV

very little traffic and the side roads just disappeared into the woods.  Then 84 was single lane, over hill and dale, passing though little towns and passing field after field of cotton.  We turned off into Monroeville, AL where we stopped for the night at Wal-mart.

Once I got the TV going and we had some iced coffee, we did our duty of going to Wal-mart.  The only grocery item I bought was 2 bananas.  We checked out the Clearance items but didn’t buy anything.

I heated up leftover fried chicken, veggie rice and steamed the last of the broccoli and we watched Big Bang Theory. 

My phone doesn’t have enough service to pull up Google so I wrote up the last 2 days of journal and will read and call it a night.