Saturday, May 19, 2012

Chicago to Minneapolis

Our first day of caravaning with another RV couple and it worked pretty well. We got out before 9:00AM and Ken and Martha took the lead because they knew what to avoid during the rush hour. We stopped for lunch at a rest area and then they lead again until we made another rest stop around 2:00PM. Then we took the lead until we got off the highway in Monticello, MN to stop for the night. We stopped to pick up some windshield washer solvent and then met up in the campgrounds.

DSC_0478We pulled in and hooked up just in time for a thunderstorm cell to come through. It looked bad on the weather radar and the warning sirens in the area did sound briefly, but we just caught the edge of it; some brief rain but no hail or high winds. Then we talked for a while about our goal for tomorrow, probably Bismarck, ND. We plan on about a 10:00AM start for that leg.