Today's Tiresome Tracking
DATELINE: Goreville Illinois, Hilltop Campground
We spent an enjoyable Sunday and Monday nights parked in front of our Anderson cousins in Springfield MO.
We reluctantly left this morning and crossed the IL state line about an hour ago and are now encamped in a PAID-for RV slot where we are running both AC's on high power trying to suck the humidity out of the air and will dump our nasty stuff from both tanks in the morning. So far all functions are nominal in the RV except for intermittent stoppage of our hot water heater. We currently must switch it off & on several times but so far it's keeping us supplied with great hot water.
We were cruising along at highway speeds (60 MPH) on Route 60, the original coast-to-coast highway that never received the glory or acclaim that route 66 did, which only ran from Santa Monica CA to Chicago, a non coast-to-coast route for real. Of a sudden there were several sets of brake lights stopping right in the middle of the highway, and we realized there was a HUGE wreck involving 2 jack-knifed semi's. Evidently one was slowing down and the other slammed into him from behind, resulting in both rigs jack knifing across the eastbound lane, with the forward-most truck jack knifing so sharply that it sheared the cab off the tractor chassis. Missouri state patrol soon showed up and efficiently directed stalled traffic over to the westbound lanes, allowing us to resume travel only 30 or so minutes after the wreck occurred. Of course we were unable to learn of the fate of either driver nor the exact story of the accident.
Wrecks in NM normally seem to block traffic entirely for hours on end, and it was impressive to see the highway patrol here actually get things moving instead of forcing traffic to back up for hours and miles on end.
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