We spent hours last night and this AM looking at numbers to see which trip might work and which would not. After close last night someone put two trucks from NC to OR on the board, almost 3,000 miles. Our first option to get to NC was gone yesterday but it would still pay really, really good with plan B or C.

But this AM we talked it over and that is a lot of miles to commit to something that you don't know what you are getting into. We've never seen the trucks out of NC for this company.

By the time the office in MN opened today our option to get to NC was gone and so were the trucks in NC. Timing is everything. When I called in the trips we wanted were gone ... but dispatch said they had others. "Sorry, we have to make sure the pay before we commit."

We headed out without a trip to head to. By the time we got to Burnsville we had decided to take two to CA. The storm we had been watching would wind down Sunday night so we will stop just short of there and wait it out.

We took our half hour break at Hardee's and then picked up our RV's.

As expected, they added a lot more good trips going to the SE, but there was guarantee they would.

I'm really low on fuel at pick up so I stop in Forest City and BB goes to Clear Lake. I catch up to her there and we run together. Quick stops at the rest area's in Ankeny and Underwood and then we are in Omaha before dark.

Quality Inn on the west side of town is our place to stop, it has a really good Mexican restaurant, Azteca.

Had to pass a few wide loads today, also saw a mobile home that had lost all it's tires on the one side. Other than that, not much for excitement.

We got a good deal on a rental car for a week coming home so we'll see if we use it for work, play or just come home.