Trekin' with the Cartwrights: Moscow, Iowa - ready to visit HWH tomorrow

We drove a little ways west and have arrived in Moscow, Iowa.
Before leaving Galesburg, Illinois, we checked fuel prices and found that their prices were better than truck stops along the interstate (maybe due to road use taxes at the truck stops?) - so we decided to fill up before leaving Illinois.

Dwayne noticed a information label on the pump...

He also noticed that there was quite a bit of "sticky stuff" around where the nozzle went in.

We were wondering whether the biodiesel was the reason the fuel was cheaper, but research on the internet implied that it might be more expensive (and cleaner burning?) than diesel. On the drive over into Iowa, Miss Doozie seemed happy with the fuel.

When I called HWH a couple of weeks ago to make the appointment for tomorrow, I asked the lady making the appointment if there was anywhere to park for the night before. The lady said that there was an empty lot across the road from them, but it wasn't very level, so wouldn't be very good without the leveling jacks working - so she suggested that we stay at the truck stop across the interstate from them.

As I was looking at the area via googlemaps satellite view, I didn't really see an empty lot (level or not) across from them. Allstays told me that the truck stop across the interstate had 12 parking places; a mile or so before the Moscow exit (exit 267) on the westbound lanes of the interstate was a truck parking area, and another mile or so before the parking area was a westbound rest area. I was a little concerned about taking up a space at the truck stop if it only had 12 spaces... truckers need to get their rest when their hours demand it, and I don't like using spaces that are supposed to be for them. I continued looking east using our Allstays app and found a collection of truck stops at exit 284, two Pilots and a TA. The first Pilot I looked at said it had 25 parking spaces; the second said it had 160 spaces; it is looking like I might not need to worry about parking for the truckers. Then I looked at the TA - it indicated that it had 900 (!!!) spaces. Ok... so maybe truckers have lots of options in this area!

As we drove across, billboard signs near Walcott, IA told us that the World's Largest Truckstop was coming up: https://iowa80truckstop.com/
We decided to head on over closer to HWH for the night, but might make a trip back there!

We stopped at the Iowa information center rest area and picked up some information about things to see in the area (just in case we are here for longer than a morning...). This area of Iowa is where President Herbert Hoover grew up.

We might go visit the Hoover Presidential Library while we're here.

Neat to read this history about President Hoover.

After getting to the truck stop, we decided to see if we could find the "empty lot" that the HWH lady had mentioned. There was another RV in one of the 12 truck parking spaces, and we were thinking it might not be a very quiet place to spend the night. We found HWH and the service entrance (gated), but we noticed a farm equipment dealer a little ways down the road that was across from HWH. It turned out that a guy was there for a short time this afternoon, and we asked him if we could park in their gravel lot, and he said it was ok.