2022 Trip To South Dakota

[JEBar]

the following is our plan for this year's trip to South Dakota ... it will be updated as our plans made ....

2022 Trip Plan

May 30, 2022 Soaring Eagle Campground at 3152 Buttermilk Rd W Lenoir City, TN .... Exit 360.... 399 miles / 6 hr 16 min .... booked 2/13/22

May 30, 2022 Weigel's 504 Gallaher Rd, Kingston, TN .... Exit 356A ..... 6 min (4.9 mi)

May 31, 2022 Duck Creek RV Park at 2540 John L. Puryear Dr. in Paducah, KY .... 313 miles / 4 hr 39 min.... booked 2/13/22

June 1, 2022 Cottonwood RV Park at 5170 N. Oakland Gravel Rd in Columbia, MO .... 300 miles / 4 hr 25 min .... booked booked 2/13/22

June 2, 2022 Victorian Acres RV Park at 6591 Highway 2 in Nebraska City, NE .... 272 miles / 4 hr 8 min .... booked booked 2/13/22

June 3, 2022 Estelline South Dakota .... 304 miles / 4 hr 25 min

AT ESTELLINE FROM JUNE 3 TO AUGUST 18

August 18, 2022 Victorian Acres RV Park at 6591 Highway 2 in Nebraska City, NE .... 304 miles / 4 hr 25 min.... booked

August 19, 2022 St Louis West KOA at 18475 Old US Hwy 66 in Eureka, MO 63025 .... 383 miles / 5 hr 51 min .... booked

August 22, 2022 Rjourney at 1270 Tylertown Rd in Clarksville, TN 37040 .... 290 miles / 4 hr 17 min .... booked

August 23, 2022 Asheville East KOA at 2708 Hwy 70 E in Swannanoa, NC 28778 .... 350 miles / 5 hr 38 min .... booked

August 24 Home .... 242 miles / 3 hr 54 min

[texaspsdx]

Your first day is tuff. I try to avoid 400/day as much as we can. We stop often (at least every 2 hours) to stretch our legs and walk our 2 older fur babies.

[JEBar]

Your first day is tuff. I try to avoid 400/day as much as we can. We stop often (at least every 2 hours) to stretch our legs and walk our 2 older fur babies.

yep, so do we .... we are 20 or so minutes from I-40 .... after we get on it, we simply set the cruse and roll until getting to the exit for Soaring Eagle which is literally right beside the interstate .... we deliberately schedule our longest drive for the first day ... doing so allows us to drive just under/over 300 miles per day for the rest of the trip

[JEBar]

all of our reservations for out drive to South Dakota and back have been made and confirmed .... the only surprise was finding out that Clarksville RV Park where we have stayed many times has been sold .... while they have a completely new website, their phone number remains the same .... this years visit to South Dakota will be a couple of weeks longer than the trips for the last few years and we are most certainly looking forward to it

[JEBar]

one week from today we are scheduled to leave for South Dakota .... today we begin in earnest to get our summer gear loaded and stored in our camper and truck .... to do so, we will have to work around bands of thunderstorms that are supposed to move through from early this morning, through late tomorrow ....

[JEBar]

trip preparations continue .... basement storage has been rearranged and then rearranged again .... final packing of the basement and other outside storage areas will be finished on Saturday or Sunday .... next will be cleaning out our truck so as to store some items and better organize others .... checking its oil and other fluids will take place Saturday morning .... our large Yeti cooler will be tied down on its rear carrier on Saturday or Sunday .... in short, nothing major going on, rather an ongoing list of "have to take care of" is growing smaller

[JEBar]

today we button things up because tomorrow morning we are scheduled to pull out for South Dakota .... much remains to be done, thankfully nothing major ....

[JEBar]

after a busy day we are about as ready to hit the road tomorrow morning as is possible at this point .... we are settled in for the evening and are working on our "what have we forgotten list"

[JEBar]

we are up and about on this departure morning .... we hope to get on the road around 9AM, history has taught us that its best to let the morning rush settle before we pull out .... today's drive is scheduled to be our longest of the trip .... about 400 miles and should take about 6 hours

[2007dura]

400 miles in 6 hours? You make better time than us when pulling the 5er.

[JEBar]

that time projection was from Google Maps .... we are setup at Soaring Eagle Campground and it actually took us 7 hrs 5 min to cover 418.9 miles today ... cruise set on I-40 at 64 mph

[2007dura]

I think that is good time. Averaging almost 60 MPH with breaks, excellent. Would take us at least 7 1/2 to 8 hours.

[JEBar]

today's drive was considerably shorter than yesterday and much closer to what we prefer .... 296.2 miles covered in 5 hrs 31 min .... we are now setup at Duck Creek RV Park, Paducah, Kentucky ====> https://www.myrvtalk.com/forum/rv-de...ducah-kentucky .... its hot and dry .... if the forecast holds true, we have a good chance of arriving during steady waves of thunderstorms passing through Columbia, MO after another 300 mile drive .... during today's drive we happened on bad accident .... a truck hauling a load of fertilizer dumped its load which a group of motorcycles, at least 6 bikes were wrecked .... one big bike was really torn up .... no clue as to how the driver is doing but from looking at the bike, we fear for the worst

[JEBar]

as forecasted, today's 314.8 mile drive took us through several bands of rain .... it took us 5 hrs 32 minutes .... while the rain was heavy at times, no lightening seen, no thunder heard .... thankfully no wrecks but plenty of construction that backed up traffic to a crawl .... we are now setup in a very wet Cottonwood's RV Park in Columbia, MO (pictures below) ===> https://cottonwoodsrvpark.com/ .... more rain and thunderstorms are in the forecast for this afternoon and overnight thankfully, all rain should have moved out well before we have to break camp in the morning .... trees are blocking our satellite TV signal, so it will be movie night .... so far we've covered 1029.9 miles in 18 hrs 8 min ....

[JEBar]

today's 272 mile drive is scheduled to be our shortest of the trip .... it will take us from central Missouri to north of Kansas City .... we plan to fill the truck today because this area has the lowest diesel prices of any we will see on this trip .... after yesterday we are happy to see no rain in the forecast .... KC is the last major city we will have to deal with and for us that's a good thing