Two weeks of political conventions with three straight days of driving in between is enough to make anyone (and their RV) slow things down a bit. We left St. Paul at the end of last week, admittedly making our way across Wisconsin at a milder clip than usual. We puttered through the cranberry bogs of Tomah, enjoyed a great lunch spot in the shadow of the stately capitol building in Madison, and managed to catch the Friday night fish fry in middle-of-nowhere Rome. Seemed like the whole county turned out for this weekly event – walking distance from our RV park – in the town’s nicest restaurant/bar/bowling alley, so who were we to miss the fun. And hey, when in Rome (Wisconsin)...

We’re not the only ones feeling the effects of 16,000+ miles – seems the Blue Beast is too. We hit the road eastbound to the sound of interesting new creaks and bangs that we swear the ol’ girl didn’t have when we pulled into the state of Minnesota.

We also had an extra-special surprise in the refrigerator. Turns out there’s some sort of malfunction that’s causing the fridge to act more like a freezer. Know what happens when you freeze a can of soda? The rogue Diet Pepsi left in there during the RNC exploded and managed to blow out an entire container of parmesan cheese sitting next to it (honestly, we’ve never seen anything like this happen in a fridge before). The fantastic Pepsi/parmesan aroma that it gave the RV came second only to the pleasure we had cleaning up the cheesy, sticky mess.

Odd banging noises and smelly fridge aside, we managed to catch up with some great folks along the way in Milwaukee and Chicago and film a few health care stories – and we’ll continue driving and filming stories until the tour ends next week in Washington, D.C.

Do you live in Ohio? West Virginia? Virginia? We’re heading home through your states and would love to hear from you. Share your health care story with us and we just might swing by in the home stretch of the Cover America Tour.

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