20180428 - CA-CO
Awake before the alarm. No stops before picking up our car in IA. Lot is mostly full but we can see 100's of RV's lined up in the park and various other places. Big change, we had to gun it to get out of our parking spots when we left and now the dirt lot is dry. Dropped the car at the airport, stop...
20180427 - CA-CO
Quiet. It's so quiet now that I am out of the bus. The protective plastic on the bus was howling in the wind for the last two days. I don't expect any long term hearing damage. We were greeted with a very strong odor was we walked out the door of the motel this AM. I remember it from every I have go...
20180426 - CA-CO
... one more delay. Got going by 7 AM, first stop was back to the CNG pump to top it off. We could hear the CNG compressor running from our room. We got just about 3,000# pressure and that is all that station is set up for. 16 hours after we first got to the station. About two hours to Green River....
20180425 - CA-CO
Ring... Shortly before 6 AM local my cell phone rings, it's a number I have programed but I thought it was a dispatcher. Nope, it was they guy I have been helping farm. He said last year that it was his last year. Guess not. Timing might work out, sort of. We'd like to stay close to home for the nex...
20180424 - CA-CO
55 We were up before 6 AM, finally at 6:30 BB suggested that we go eat so we are ready when/if the bus company calls. That is when I looked at the phone and saw that they had already texted me to say the bus is ready. By the time we showered, ate, go going and there it was 8 AM. Still took 45 minute...
20180423 - CA-CO
Good news, Bad news. Jumping ahead, good news, I got a bus, bad news, it didn't pass my inspection so we are still sitting in Livermore. We decided not to go to any National Parks, but instead went to a few cemeteries. I had good luck, finding all but one grave for the day. Most are very well marked...
20180422 - IA-CA
(Wifi wasn't working very well Sunday night so this is recalled from a day later.) After breakfast we headed up to a park called Armstrong Redwood Park. Interesting that it allows parking on the sides of the road prior to the paid entrance and also has a small parking lot prior to the entrance that...
20180421 - IA-CA
Still calling this a California run until we either get something else or we are back home. Problem with being on the west coast is we have an alarm set to call in to work every day and at that is 6 AM here. So we were up early for local time, don't want to get to far off schedule. I've only seen on...
20180420 - IA-CA
Breakfast at Mel's at 6 AM. Too much food. Just like last night, too much food. At the buffet last night, the slice of prime rib I had was likely <> 1/3 pound. I won't order a 1/3# burger because it is too much food. Last night I ate that much plus all the other side and deserts. BB stopped a...
20180419 - IA-CA
Bacon for breakfast. Expensive bacon (twice the price of the night before) We are going by 6:30 local, first stop is a rest area 90 miles down the road near the Bonneville salt flats. When I go in public restrooms I always check for toilet paper for two reasons. One is to make sure there is some. To...
20180418 - IA-CA
Eating breakfast at sunrise. Temp is right at freezing but no frost on the windows. Wasn't any frost yesterday morning either, on ours. Did notice some on other peoples cars. No wind warnings today. The Cheyenne port of entry/scale is mostly closed except for those needing permits. Not sure what the...
20180417 - IA-CA
Didn't think there was any rush to get going this AM so we left the motel about 8 AM. 1st break is at a rest area in Grand Island, then fast food in North Platte at the Loves/Subway. Briefly mentioned stopping at Denny's but decided to keep moving. IF we were maximizing time, we would have then kept...
20180416 - IA-CA
We had planned on calling in on Saturday for a Monday run... but no one answered the phone. If we had know we could have called Friday, we may have gotten Hayward runs, now they are gone so we are back to West Sacramento. This AM I was calling right at 8 AM and got right through and go the runs we w...
20180409 - IA-AZ
ICE The windshield and car were covered with ice this morning. Lucky the temp was right at 32 so it didn't take long for the heater to loosen it up. Roads were not bad, but I didn't use the cruise just in case. Too late for rush hour in Des Moines. First stop at the rest area by Story City, next sto...
20180408 - IA-AZ
Lots of train noise last night. We've stayed here a time or two before and it was never an issue. Maybe we just didn't sleep as well for other reasons... or maybe there were more trains. And there were plenty of trains today. 100+ cars long, at least once or twice an hour all morning. First stop tod...
20180407 - IA-AZ
Lucky for us we looked at the weather before heading out this AM. Snow is in the forecast for I-70, we are going to re-route our trip. Instead of the usual free breakfast at this hotel they give you a coupon for the restaurant next door. Pick a item off the coupon or take $7 each off any item. More...
20180406 - IA-AZ
I got a rude awakening this morning. BB woke me up and I thought that was rude ;) We had no where to go and four days to get there... and it was at 4:45 AM. Never mind that we had gone to bed at 7:30 last night so it was over 9 hours sleep. But I was still out cold when the light went on. So we got...
20180405 - IA-AZ
Got going shortly after daylight. But first I checked to see if the company had my paperwork. They had not updated the computer when I got up, but by the time we were ready for breakfast it was updated. Whewww. One less phone call to make. Not much wind today. Not much to notice out of the ordinary....
20180404 - IA-AZ
Lots of excitement today so I have likely forgotten half of it already. At the motel this AM there were two places on the cement where that were long enough for trucks to park... and there was a car parked in one of them. There also was one area of parallel parking with one car parked so bigger rigs...
20180403 - IA-AZ
Weather was iffy this morning so we didn't get going until 8 AM. We wanted to wait until after rush hour in KC. Talked to a guy while I was doing my inspection at the motel and he had came down from Eagan, MN. Said it started snowing about noon and by 2 PM he didn't know if they were going to be abl...
20180402 - IA-AZ
Left out this AM at 8 AM. Most of rush hour had past so we made good time other than I don't push our old cars to the limit. When we got to Forest City someone in the office always looks at our logs. I had really messed up one day. Wrong date, wrong math, wrong hours, so that took a few extra minute...
20180331 - IA-AZ
Made the call and got runs to Phoenix, AZ. Yesterday there was more and better stuff but we did not want to leave on Sunday. The board had been back up to almost 150 again with lots of old stuff. We had talked about taking some RV's that had been on the board for a while but when we saw that rental...