Today started the same as yesterday ended, with a meal at Mel's Diner. The motel doesn't have a free breakfast so we ate at Mel's before we hit the road. When you add that $20 to the price of the motel it isn't so cheap anymore.

Once we checked out we were greeted with frost. More frost that the edge of a credit card would easily scrape off, but we scraped off what we could and waited for the defrost to do the rest.

Beautiful morning drive, we were out at sunup ... once we got into California and into higher elevations, there was fresh snow and frost on the trees ... and looking down on the fog in the valleys with the sun lighting up some of the mountain tops.

Mileage. I started this AM with a fuel range of 300, I drove up and down the pass 60 miles and stopped with a range of 375. I should have coasted in on fumes but instead I left over a half a tank of fuel. Dealer said I win a prize for leaving the most fuel in a unit. Not sure what happened. I had averaged 13 mpg over the first 1,500 miles then yesterday it drops to 12 mpg. Today it showed it was at 17 but based on fuel used it was closer to 26 mpg. This is the first RV in two years that I have not spent less on fuel than they gave me. And I left it all in the tank. BB did make a little, enough to offset my loses. She looked back later and we have made up to $140 each on fuel on some trips.

The cheap one way rental car was about 30 miles from our drop so we picked up a local rental to use to pick up our oneway. It seems like an extra step but it makes it easier to get delivered and gives us wiggle room if plans change.

First we park one RV in a vacant lot, then go and pickup the local rental car. Drive near delivery and drop the first RV, then back and pick up the 2nd RV ... then park the local rental and take both RV's to the wash and delivery. While getting inspected, I walk back to where the rental is parked in move it to the dealer. Once we are delivered we use the local to pick up the one way, then return the local to where we picked it up ... all before we can leave town.

Work doesn't exist on the board, so I call company one and they don't have work either. So straight home it is ... unless something comes up on route.

We have the car for a week and we can get home in two and a half days. Not sure how we will work this. If we return the car to early to cost more than doubles.

After we picked up the car we saw that there is now a truck from Salt Lake to NH. And a bus run from AL to OR, but that one is kind of out of route.

As soon as we were done at the drop we went to In-and-Out. Once we were out of town the first stop was the Petro in Reno as a rest stop. Then Fernly at Arbey's to get food to eat on the go.

Tonight is the Quality Inn in Winnemucca, that makes it an 15 hour day so far.