Moving week

The road trip has commenced, yesterday actually. I decided to take route 90 to 80 to 76 into Denver. So, it's lodgings on route 80 for last night and tonight. Last night we stayed in Toledo, Ohio at the Howard Johnson's. Don't recommend it; breakfast was donuts and Capri Sun whilst the restaurant is renovated. Julie was quite upset about this. I was a bit annoyed, but realized that the problem isn't found in the actual breakfast, or the staff who decided that donuts and sugar water are adequate nutrition, but in our expectations of the breakfast. We read "breakfast provided" and interpreted that as "continental breakfast" and were disappointed when reality didn't match up to our interpretation.

Tonight we're at a the Red Carpet Motel in Walnut, Iowa (we've seen the breakfast area; there's at least cereal on the premises, although I can't drink milk and didn't bring any soy beverage). She thinks this a seedy motel. I think we have a (free) hot shower, cable TV, wireless internet, and beds with sheets and are therefore staying in luxury. What I am not happy about is the price of the motel; $60 for a motel in the middle of nowhere Iowa! The Super 8 (which we eschewed) was $80 for the night! Cripes. Something tells me we're not in Nepal, anymore, Dorothy.

Tomorrow hopefully we zoom through the rest of Iowa and all of Nebraska in order to get to Julie's house in Denver in time to sleep. It's slow going with the trailer attached to the Honda Civic, but we can hit 70mph on the downhills. In fact, it was really smooth sailing through Ohio, which I can now tell you is flatter than Iowa, with an average speed of 70mph. We're a bit nervous about the ascent into Denver, although neither one of us remembers it being a sudden incline. Maybe the final stretch won't be as slow as we're anticipating...?