#overnighting

Those full time and frequent RVers who understand the beauty of free overnight parking at truck stops and travel centers know that etiquette is a must. There aren’t a slew of rules, but following those and a few unwritten, common sense guidelines will ensure that the courtesy extended to us by these major chains will continue.

With that, I give you a visual of a major no-no. This is a Flying J,…

Realizing I hadn’t eaten anything all day except the cereal at 6am out of a coffee mug, I decided I needed subway. That instant. Chowed down on that while we went to find pizza for Danielle and Stefan.

Attempted to sleep in the car on the ride back to Danielle’s but maybe got about 10 minutes in finally when I was awoken to us doing some weird u-turn and the sounds of man overboard playing over and over and over. We made it back to Danielle’s house just for us to switch cars, pack up all our stuff, and start the drive to Minnesota. I was unloading my things from Stefan’s vehicle as Jack and his sister pull into the driveway. We were all so damn delirious already.

Danielle and I started the journey in my car, after a brief run back to her house to get her beloved pillow she had forgotten. She trucked it all the way to the dells where we stopped to get gas and gather ourselves at like 3-4am. We pulled in next to these kids in a van that were obviously on warped, but I could barely string three words together at this point so I didn’t attempt to talk with them. (we freaked the fuck out later about this encounter after hearing about the accident, but after viewing pictures it wasn’t the same band).

I took over driving and it wasn’t long until we caught back up with grandma Stefan. Passed him and then shortly after I see these freaks trying to pass me again. Glad we lost them pretty soon after.

Stopped a few/many times to grab energy in whatever possible form. We caught a really great sunrise as we were crossing into Minnesota from La Crosse.

Road warriored it to the max. Stopped at a gas station just outside of Shakopee to change and shave in the bathroom. Arrived at the Warped grounds just in time to finish off my subway and chug some diet mt dew before I called Vic to officially begin day two.