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Re:Things I Wish I’d Known Before Fulltime RVing (2017) by wombatpm on Tuesday June 20, 2023 @08:57PM (#36412957)
Chicago to Minneapolis is approximately 420 miles. At 60mph that’s a 7 hr drive. At 70mph it’s 6 hrs. At 80 it’s 5 hrs 15 min.

When I was making that drive every other week I hated the slow pokes. There are only some many times you can look forward to a stop in Tomah, WI

Re:Things I Wish I’d Known Before Fulltime RVing (2017) by billforsternz on Tuesday June 20, 2023 @11:16PM (#36413950)
I don't know, as a non-American, Tomah Wisconsin sound exactly like the kind of place you could get a nice grilled cheese or a decent hamburger at a diner unchanged since the 1950s, with a bottomless cup of coffee and a nice slice of apple pie from a friendly middle aged waitress called Flo or similar who would no doubt call you hon. I'd look forward to stopping there.
Re:Things I Wish I’d Known Before Fulltime RVing (2017) by XargonEnder on Wednesday June 21, 2023 @02:44AM (#36415198)
As an American who has never been to Wisconsin this is pretty much what I would imagine as well.
Re:Things I Wish I’d Known Before Fulltime RVing (2017) by dr_dshiv on Wednesday June 21, 2023 @02:55AM (#36415264)
If it is like most of small town america, they replaced the diner with a soulless strip mall back in the 90s. You can stop at the Burgerking or Dollar General now.
Re:Things I Wish I’d Known Before Fulltime RVing (2017) by bbarnett on Wednesday June 21, 2023 @12:30AM (#36414406)
Quebec to Palo Alto, I've done the drive in 3 days, and 5, usually 4. All due to weather, construction, and slow pokes or not.
Re:Things I Wish I’d Known Before Fulltime RVing (2017) by rhino369 on Wednesday June 21, 2023 @09:33AM (#36418235)
The restaurants in Mauston, WI seem cleaner/better. That’s where I always stopped between Chicago and Hayward.