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. Today the 1st stall just had some loose stuffed next to the empty roll. So I went in the other stall. BB wasn't so lucky. Five stalls, four were locked and the other had no toilet paper (but we've been doing this long enough we are prepared, except maybe on the hottest days.

Most of two hours down the road I see a pickup a ways on to the shoulder. I am almost up to him before I realize it is a Highway Patrol, so I move over one lane even though he does not have his lights on. A mile down the road I see him in the left lane, then he pulls in between BB and I, and then he hits the lights.

When he walks up to the window, he first says who he is and then asked for a list of stuff. I give them to him one at a time, some he hands back after looking at them, others he takes with him back to the squad. I forgot to give him my license so he had to walk back up ... then when he gave me everything back, he forgot my license so he had to walk back again. He basically looked at my permit, log, insurance, placards. Then checked my lights and horn. All good.

The last time I had an inspection was a roadside ... in NV. I think I've had more roadside inspections than scalehouse inspections.

BB had passed us when I pulled over and gone ahead to our next stop, the Maverick in Elko where we fueled. Pulled up behind the same cop as I was exiting the freeway, and he was sitting at the stoplight when we pulled out of the gas station. Saw a few of them today.

Another hour and a half down the road we stop and eat in Battle Mountain at PortOSubs. Should have fueled here, gas was $.30 a gallon less than Elko. My math said if I fueled in Wells, I would have enough gas to make it to delivery, but BB thought she could make it if we fueled in Elko, and the fuel was cheaper. So I was going to guess as to how many gallons I would need, but the pump shut off at $75 so I left it at that. Now it looks like I will make it to the drop but BB will have to add more fuel. We could have saved $20-50 this trip by fueling at different places and, most likely, by driving 60 instead of 65. BB has the mpg readout on her RV and it does make a difference.

Quick stop at Loveloch. Chevron again has gas for $.30 more per gallon than the truckstop across the highway.

After Loveloch the wind picks up and it rains. It has been cloudy most all day but good driving weather. The last two hours are rough and we are ready to stop at 3 PM local.

We could keep going, but we don't have a good reason to. So far I have never gotten a bus before 5 PM. So no matter what time we delivery we aren't going anywhere until 5 PM. And we know where this motel is, we don't have a 'go to' place in CA yet.

BestWestern at Boomtown/Verdi is our stop. Usually we eat at Mel's Diner but tonight the buffet was open so we ate prime rib instead. Could have saved $10 if we had gotten ourselves 'payers cards' before eating but we didn't. Main food was good, deserts weren't.

Then we walked for 40 minutes, it was misting a little but finally the sun came out.

Did call the bus dispatcher at noon, he said to call again at noon Friday after I delivery. He doesn't have any buses yet, it sounds like they are waiting to release them and then he'll be buried again. We got time, we'll stay the weekend if we have to.

The rental car we have lined up to go the 100 miles between the two runs will cost us twice as much as the one we had for four days last trip :)