We are supposed to get a call from the shop at 10 AM so we aren't in any rush to get up and going. Breakfast is a little different every day. Today the sausage is cold. Other than that, all is good.

No call at 10 AM. By 10:30 I call them, all I get is answering machines, no one picked up. We start walking to the shop. I bring my backpack in case I can leave with the bus. The rest of the stuff we leave in the room. Becuase I had problems with the computer last night I had already packed my computer before we started walking so I was carring the extra weight the whole way.

No one at the shop. It rained last night and it doesn't look like anyone has been in the lot this morning. I call the bus dispatcher and he is in, it's still before noon on the west coast. Get a motel, call the bus company.

By the time we get to the shop, we are a quarter of the way to the rental car agency. I try to call to see if they have a car before we walk, but I get put on hold. So BB makes a reservation online and we keep walking. After 2 miles we are at the rental cars. In fitting with the last week, there are issues with getting the car. They finally had to do a manual order to get us out of there.

Finally after a week we have wheels ... like we are 16 again. Wheels.

The first thing we do is go get soap. Laundry soap. The motel has washing machines, but no laundry detergent so we have no more clean clothes. We had only planned on staying overnight and would have to walk most of a mile so we left our suitcases in the bus and only carried a backpack and a duffel bag. We stop at WalMart to get the soap and also get a new thumb drive for the computer in case the computer does crash before I get a new one.

Next stop is Best Buy to look at more computers. Too many people out shopping this time of year.

Now backtracking to the Post Office so we can mail last weeks delivery.

And then back to the motel. BB had eaten the left over pizza for lunch, I had a cup of yogurt when we got back.

At some point I had called the bus company. They answered on the second ring. And they restated that the bus company was to have called me. Now the earliest we will get back is next Friday. Most likely the bus is not done yet so we won't get to delivery until some time on Tuesday, then three days home.

I am really getting bored today sitting in the motel without using the computer, only my note pad ... and it has been a week in this town.

Finally at 5 PM we go to Chedder's about a mile away ... the way the crow flies.There is already a wait. Once we are seated I order the monte cristo and potato soup. BB had salmon and veggies. Way too much food for ordering desert.

Back to the hotel and I start transfering data to the thumb drive.