Time for a Nap...
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A lot of folks have a long weekend this year over the Fourth of July – they are off Saturday, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday.
I just had a long weekend, of a different type. I was off Saturday and Sunday, which is pretty normal. But I drove from northern Illinois to eastern Pennsylvania and back, which is not.
Lacy and I left Friday evening after work, and made it to Cleveland, Ohio by 3:00 am Saturday. We stayed there in a Marriott hotel I had reserved. After about 5 hours of sleep, I got up and we drove to the Allentown PA area, to my last RV campground.
I hooked on to my cargo trailer (12 feet long by 6 feet wide) which I had left there last weekend, and collapsed the new canopy (20 feet long by 10 feet wide) and stored it inside the trailer. I folded up the ground cloth, and packed that in, too. Then, we drove back to Ohio starting at 5:00 pm.
We arrived at Toledo, in the western end of the state, at about 2:00 am. There, the Marriott charged me an extra $75 for having a dog in the room (the hotel the night before forgot to), so when I got up about 9:00 am Sunday, I did my weekly laundry there and I gave Lacy her monthly bath in the room. They are now earning that $75, since washing the dog in the tub is a messy job!
We got back to the new campground in northern Illinois at about 7:00 pm, after I stopped to buy some ice, some steaks and a big salad.
1,600 miles in a weekend (I get about 15 miles to the gallon when the truck is not towing the big trailer, so that’s more than 100 gallons of diesel at about $3 per gallon).
So now, I have the stuff I need to live in the fifth wheel for a prolonged time, in a Chicago winter, in some comfort. It’s like I have a portable garage with me!
We slept like logs last night!
I am looking forward to a four day weekend next week – the traditional “long weekend”, without too much driving!
A lot of folks have a long weekend this year over the Fourth of July – they are off Saturday, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday.
I just had a long weekend, of a different type. I was off Saturday and Sunday, which is pretty normal. But I drove from northern Illinois to eastern Pennsylvania and back, which is not.
Lacy and I left Friday evening after work, and made it to Cleveland, Ohio by 3:00 am Saturday. We stayed there in a Marriott hotel I had reserved. After about 5 hours of sleep, I got up and we drove to the Allentown PA area, to my last RV campground.
I hooked on to my cargo trailer (12 feet long by 6 feet wide) which I had left there last weekend, and collapsed the new canopy (20 feet long by 10 feet wide) and stored it inside the trailer. I folded up the ground cloth, and packed that in, too. Then, we drove back to Ohio starting at 5:00 pm.
We arrived at Toledo, in the western end of the state, at about 2:00 am. There, the Marriott charged me an extra $75 for having a dog in the room (the hotel the night before forgot to), so when I got up about 9:00 am Sunday, I did my weekly laundry there and I gave Lacy her monthly bath in the room. They are now earning that $75, since washing the dog in the tub is a messy job!
We got back to the new campground in northern Illinois at about 7:00 pm, after I stopped to buy some ice, some steaks and a big salad.
1,600 miles in a weekend (I get about 15 miles to the gallon when the truck is not towing the big trailer, so that’s more than 100 gallons of diesel at about $3 per gallon).
So now, I have the stuff I need to live in the fifth wheel for a prolonged time, in a Chicago winter, in some comfort. It’s like I have a portable garage with me!
We slept like logs last night!
I am looking forward to a four day weekend next week – the traditional “long weekend”, without too much driving!
posted by Greg Finnegan @ 1:20 PM
4 Comments:
At 11:47 PM,
kenju said…
I read recently about how hotels and motels are becoming dog friendly. Obviously not that one. Maybe next time you need a hotel, you should find out which ones welcome them without charging extra.
At 1:18 PM,
Mellie Helen said…
...or, to supplement your income, you could park your trailer in front of a non-pet-friendly hotel, hang out a shingle reading "Dog Boarding: $10/night", and rake it in. Hee!
At 1:55 PM,
Greg Finnegan said…
Kenju, I heard the same. Marriott is a great chain, and I have a gazillion points. It's still too much to pay.
Mellie, it would be like Noah asking about the arc, "Have you seen the MESS in there? Now who do you suppose is gonna have to CLEAN that?!" My trailer would not fare well, I'm afraid.
At 8:57 PM,
Jeff in NC said…
I've used www.petswelcome.com a few times to locat epet-friendly hotels. Our most recent trip took us from Phoenix, AZ to Pittsburgh, PA, over the course of 2 nights / 3 days with 2 dogs (25 & 50 pounds) and a cat. Surprisingly, we found Holiday Inns had a very welcoming policy, and in some cases, did not actually charge us extra for the pets. The ones we found we surprisingly clean too.
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