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The 2025 Great Summer Road Trip

June 16-17, 2025 

 A couple days ago someone suggested I should write an RV Travel guide; I replied in jest that it would be very short. I then wrote the three-chapter book. Chapter one, “Just Go!" Chapter two, "Stay flexible!" Chapter three, "Don’t worry", the end. We used all three of those chapters in the next few days.

Millie started feeling poorly on our drive south from Minnesota. Knowing her, she probably felt bad before that, but she doesn't like to complain. I'm sure she was hoping it was just the regular flu. We didn't do anything after arriving at Cut Rock State Park in Illinois, just rested in the RV. What exactly she had contracted were still undetermined when we went to bed. At about 3 am we woke up and she said I need you to take me to the ER. Luckily there was a big hospital not three miles from the campground. Three AM turned out to be an excellent time to go to the emergency room in Rockford Illinois, because she was the only patient. Millie got the full attention of all the medical personnel and was soon diagnosed with Covid. I put her in bed at the RV and picked up the covid meds at a drug store just down the road.  We extended our stay at Cut Rock State Park near Rockford Illinois for another day in case we needed further medical intervention. 

Millie’s condition seemed to be stable, but she was feeling pretty miserable. I was trying to be cautious in case Millie needed more medical intervention, as we were very close to the hospital of record. At the same time, I was thinking to myself, maybe we should head toward South Carolina before I got the virus. I thought it was inevitable that being in the confines of the RV, I would be getting it at some point. I even started to feel peeked but passed it off as psychosomatic.  

June 18, 2025 

When we woke up early the next morning Millie made the decision when she said, Lets go home. I had the truck and trailer rigged in record time and we were pulling out of the campground as the sun was coming up.

So, after successfully traveled all this way with very little traveling on interstate highways we drove 1000 miles in two days on a series of interconnected turnpikes.

One our first day we drove from 50 miles west of Chicago Illinois to about 50 miles south of Lexington Kentucky for a total of 550 miles. We overnighted at Walnut Meadow RV Park. I don’t remember anything about it, I know we had a pull thru site and I didn’t disconnect the truck. I don’t even remember if I spoke to anyone at check in, I know I paid because I looked up my credit card receipts.

June 19, 2025

The next morning, we promptly got on the road again and drove over 540 miles to our home in /South Carolina. Millie was a real trooper; she never complained the whole way.

the Great Summer Road Trip of 2025 is unfortunately over.


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