Any longhaul drivers here? RV/truck/etc

Well, after my family’s affairs in WA are wrapped up I’m looking at trying to move back with the remainder of my living relatives in NE Indiana. Thinking mostly I-90, but detours around Minnesota and Illinois so I don’t have to lock up my CCW in the trunk.

Questions:

  1. Any Must-Sees to recommend? I’m a plane nut and a dino nut, and have some railroad museums listed already. Some of this is going to be trying to see places that were perennials when Grandpa and I made this drive to visit the rels every couple years like Lincoln’s 10,000 Silver Dollar and Wall Drug, but most of the favorite mom-n-pops like 4-B’s in Kalispell now only exist as memories. Of course Mount Rushmore since it’s right out of Wall, and I need to stop a bit west of Wall to check Ellsworth AFB’s museum B-52 off my list. Little Bighorn is BTDT.
  2. Particular spots to avoid? In the early 2000s when we were visiting a friend of Mom’s who’d moved to the tiny town of Libby, MT he’d described a couple of the local Indian reservations as “you do not stop even if you are out of gas” kind of places.
  3. Any advice on truck stops and their rewards programs? While I very much prefer localvoring with mom-n-pops, my grossed-out Equinox with 3500# of trailer and cargo isn’t gonna be the easiest on gas so I should probably look for places where I’ll get a kickback, the bigger the better, to make my gas-and-meal stops.

Personally, I wouldn’t worry about locking things up. Just don’t get your car searched.

Not a nice town, but I enjoyed regular fighter flights overhead by Tomah, WI. Occasionally in Madison.

If you swing over toward Milwaukee before cutting south again, I always wanted to stop at the Russell Military Museum.

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With my luck, I’d be that random guy who draws the “Blue State plates, must be here to make trouble, colonoscopy him” overeager trooper.

If I avoid IL, I’m completely cutting around WI and MN too. Especially should avoid IL with a bunch of AR’s in the trunk or trailer…

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If you want to go through MN you can go through WI and MI’s UP, cross the Mackinaw bridge to southern MI.

If you want to avoid MN I’d understand that as well.

When I’m traveling I use the Gas Buddy website to check fuel prices, lately google maps has shown gas prices at a lot of gas stations as well.

MN doesn’t accept WA CCW permits. That’s a long way to go unstrapped…

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