July 18, 2015 - Lake Geneva, Wisconsin

George got up and walked the dogs before he woke me. I slept like a log in a meat locker as he had the A/C cranked down. The dogs slept in the middle between us. Last night he asked me to write an order for Starbucks but we ended up bringing out Baby Brother our one-cup-Keurig which we finally have figured out how to use it. It has only taken a year. Anyways, George told me the travel plaza had a fenced in dog park but the dogs just stood looking in one place. I pulled the MDX to the back of the RV while George got the tow bar ready. Part of the ritual of hooking it up is I put it in park while he was hooking up the tow bar. Then he signals me to put it in reverse and I slowly go backwards until I hear the tow bar lock. I then put the gear shifter through all of the gears ending with neutral. Then I turn off the engine with the keys in the ignition. Normally I would put the break assist on the brake pedal.i give the wheel some turns to make sure the wheel isn't locked. I also normally turn off the built in navigation, A/C and radio so it doesn't suck the life out of the batteries. As we were driving we figured out we would be near a Gino's East Chicago Deep Dish Pizza which we decided would be our dinner. Our RV GPS Rand McNally crapped out so I was using my phone plus George resurrected his Garmin to hel navigate us. At one point when we were south of Chicago the Garmin and my iPhone had conflicting ways.so at first we were following the Garmin before it took us in an area that didn't look to good. All I could think of was the song Leroy Brown.."In the South side of Chicago in the baddest part of town..." So since our Garmin was old and not updated we decided to use my phone with Google Maps. Since we didn't have any propane, none of our propane appliances were working including the refrigerator. It was kick started by being plugged in while we were in Portage, Ohio. For two years I have had a $200. Credit on my Pilot/Flying J credit card since every time we went to buy fuel the darn thing wouldn't work for one reason or another. So when we went to buy propane I was surprised that the darn thing worked finally. Of course our ice cream cones were like soup but since we had ice in the freezer too the rest of the stuff was still okay. As we were driving my friend Laurie posted to my Facebbok page that we were headed toward powerful storms. The batch that hit us while in Indiana weren't that impressive, however the ones in the Chicago area were severe with a tornado watch. The rain was slamming the RV however this motor home is heavier than our last one so we didn't feel the wind as much. What was more concerning was my weather app was telling me there were tornados on the ground right where we were headed. We had been to Gino's East Deep Dish Chicago pizza twice before on two other trips to the area so I noticed they had a location in Wisconsin at Lake Geneva so we plotted a course to it. We passed a Super Walmart in Lake Geneva but George insisted on driving the 42 foot RV with MDX attached through the center of town giving me the Heebeegeebees! So when we saw where it was located we made our way back to the Walmart. We parked rig and unhooked the MDX. Took the dogs out and a Walmart employee came to see if we were spending the night and U said yes. She said it was fine and not to bother the truckers parked there. So we had our face fixed for pizza so we got in the MDX and it wouldn't start. So we had a portable jumper and George jumped it while I went to get some things from Walmart. He picked me up in the MDX and went to Gino's East which overlooked Lake Geneva but they put us at a table at the bar away from the view. The pizza was great and then we drive back to the RV to watch TV.