Nice motel last night but the breakfast was bad. No yogurt, scrambled eggs, sausage, hard boiled eggs were all 'room temperature.'

Most of the plans we thought we had yesterday were gone this morning. Called at 8 AM to get a trip from NC to OH, it was gone on Saturday but they forgot to take it off the board. So we will deadhead back to IA.

It was about 2 miles to the rental car pickup. Traffic wasn't too bad for rush hour. We both came back to the hotel and moved our stuff to the rental car, then fueled and drove to the RV dealer. Two guys came out to look at the units so it took about 15 minutes, no issues. Then it was about 2 - 10ths of a mile back to the motel. Should have left more stuff in the rental car, I had to carry my backpack plus my 'triangle bag,' which also includes a lot of juice, water and other heavy things that I didn't need to be carrying.

So the new plan is to drop the first rental car at the airport then pickup the 2nd / one way home rental car there. We had thought of dropping the first car back at the pickup, but it was only about $15 to more to leave it at the airport. It was only a couple of blocks walk between the two car rental places but there was no sidewalk and this time we were hauling all our suite cases and stuff. So these were my two walks for the day.

BB always puts the cars in her name, it works out best for most pickups. But this time we had issues. This places lists off all the worst case scenarios trying to get you to buy their protection which basically doubles the price of the car. She does the inspection of the car, notices a dent which we have to let the exit people know about. Before we even get to the freeway she also notices it is not the same size we had reserved and it does not have cruise control which the person at the rental counter said it did. Back we go, we get a bigger car with cruise ... all is good except they didn't change the time so we have one less hour to get back to MSP. And it was going to be close anyway, now we will have to push harder.

First food we find it Bojangles but right next door is Arbey's, Arbey's it is. Traffic is much less today heading home, the holidays are over and the trucks are back on the road.

First rest stop is in Rural Hall, no rest area's so we drive through town until we find an SA, lots of times the smaller stations don't have very clean rest rooms.

We had thought of stopping in Wytheville for cheap gas but we were only down to a quarter tank of fuel so we didn't. It's going to be a long day ... fro us. Long as in past sun down <> past 5 pm :)

Next rest area was Beckley, then on to Charleston for food. Honey Baked Ham ... a nice change of taste, but wouldn't have needed the brownie. The gal behind the counter asked what else 'I needed.' "I don't NEED a brownie, but I want one."

Now it's dark and we have miles to go. We end up stopping for the night in Chillocothe and the same motel we stayed at two nights ago. First stopped and fueled at Pilot, then Quality Inn for the night.

Nothing on the board that we will grab first thing in the AM, so not sure why we are rushing back. If there is work, we plan on being back Weds AM and leaving in the afternoon for the next trip.