I woke up at 5:30am and was exhausted and bleary eyed, but I needed to use the restroom.  I used the facilities and went back to sleep until 7:30am when I heard the loud roar of what I thought were Harleys parking adjacent to me. It turns out that they were racing roadsters heading to Bonneville. Pretty cool.  I spoke briefly with a man and his son, then I left in a hurry at 7:50am with temp at 64 degrees.

I paid the Ohio toll ($4.25) and also a toll just 22 minutes later in Indiana ($4.60) and drove really fast to the rest stop near Elkheart, IN to clean up and change for church. I left there at 9:15am to get to the Basilica of the Sacred Heart at the University of Notre Dame.  I arrived at 9:40am with odometer at 20,481.  After Mass, I returned to the car which had only 26 miles range remaining (GOLDEN!).  It was 80 degrees and I left for Mishiwaka, IN at 11:30am.

The charger was only 4 miles away… were you worried? I was not.  In Mishiwaka, odometer was 20,485 and temp at 81 degrees with 21 range remaining… the lowest I have gone on this trip. I plugged in at 12:42pm and charging was complete to 206 by 1:43pm.  While charging, I typed up the Ohio post and this blog post, picked up an item at Barnes and Noble (at the 70% off table), and met another Tesla family.  Peggy and John were bringing their daughter Rachel from their home in St. Louis to gymnastics camp with a stop in Columbus, OH planned. They had a blue P85, but they were so early in Tesla production that their car has neither the number 85 nor the letter P.

They departed and I reviewed the toll free route to the supercharger at Pleasant Prairie Premium Outlets in Wisconsin. I left at 2:15pm to do my “Chicago drive-by” and visit Lake Michigan en route to Wisconsin. There it will be Central Daylight Time.  Frugal Tesla