20180619 - CA-MO
Back in MN We managed to get out of the motel this morning by 7. First stop was the post office, we hadn't mailed our paperwork from our last trip yet and we delivered Weds. 1st stop was the rest area in Osceolla, IA, 2nd stop at Wendy's in Forest City, then next door to the Caseys for gas. Did a qu...
20180618 - CA-MO
BB has been real good this trip about getting out and taking a walk before breakfast every morning. Today was no exception. What was different was She walked past a goose that flapped it's wings at her. And the followed her down the street, back the way she came, across the parking lot and and back...
20180617 - CA-MO
Last night we had pizza, neither of us slept very well after. Not sure if it was the pizza, too much pizza or nothing to do with pizza. Did feel better by morning. Last time we were here, break fast was not all out until after 6:30. We had been sitting and waiting with others. This time the room was...
20180616 - CA-MO
Ran out of driving hours, spent the day in ALB. Very un-eventful day. Walked back the Mexican place for lunch, it was slightly raining. Walked to Little Ceasers, it was supposed to rain again in a few minutes. Rained most of the day. BB did her walk up against the building, there is an overhang, all...
20180615 - CA-MO
Out of the motel before 9 AM today. Breakfast was still buffet style but it seemed to be real eggs and fried sausage. Short day today... 100 miles/two hours to Williams and our first CNG fuel of the day at Loves. The rest of the fuels stops will also be at Loves. At least that means someone is aroun...
20180614 - CA-MO
Back to the usual hotel breakfasts. Birds were loud this AM, sun is shining. First stop is a rest area in Avelon an hour and a half down the road. Second stop is Tehochapi, CA at the Flying J/T J Fresh. The 2nd leg was 2-1/2 hours but that is where the next truckstop was. Lots of jockeying for posit...
20180613 - CA-MO
14 hour day, now heading to KS with a bus At this hotel the breakfast is at the attached restaurant so we could eat as soon as it opened. It opened at 5 AM, we were down there at 5:30. We've eaten here a few times... just last night:) , but also for breakfast. We've always gotten the free breakfast...
20180612 - IA-CA
Breakfast this AM is in the adjacent restaurant. It is set up the usual way, plus the addition of made to order omelets. Very few Clarion Inns were built as Clarion Inns, most were old event centers like Holiday Inns or Best Westerns. I don’t remember what this one was when I started driving but it...
20180611 - IA-CA
BB was up early to do a walk before we got going this AM. Didn't look like I would make it to Ogallala on the fuel I have so I stopped at Shell before leaving town. One diesel island, one truck on one side one on the other. One was washing his windows for 15 minutes, not sure what the other one had...
20180610 - IA-CA
Left the motel by 8 AM, got to Forest City by 9:30. Don't remember if I mentioned it last trip, coming home we missed our turn to go to Forest City. Not sure how, we were both watching for it. In and out of the lot in record time. 45 minutes instead of an hour. Lots of people picking up today but di...
20180609 - IA-CA
Called in on Friday AM to get two CA runs. If we hadn't gotten those we would have just waited until something else 'good' showed up. We are heading to West Sacramento, same locations we've been to a couple of times recently. From there it is about a two hour drive down to get a bus, if there are an...
20180607 - IA-AZ
Same routine. Left out of the motel, picked up our car at Forest City. I got to Fort Snelling and waited for BB to get the rental car delivered. Then stopped at Bakers Square before heading home. By late in the day dispatch had added two trips to CA, we'll both be on the phone in the AM trying to ge...
20180606 - IA-AZ
It was after 7:30 when we left the motel this AM. It's too far to make it home yet today so we aren't going to push it. 1st stop wasn't for 2-1/2 hours. Emporia at the Flying J for fuel and restrooms. This is about as cheap as we will find fuel. Did see it for less at a un-manned Cenex in some littl...
20180605 - IA-AZ
First a couple of notes from yesterday. Bus and flood. When we went through Belen it looked like they had been flooded out. Washouts back into the orchards 8 foot deep. Water in lawns and in the ditches. But I couldn't find anything online recently. So it may be that the damage was from before and t...
20180604 - IA-AZ
Short night. Breakfast is in the in house restaurant. Not sure if you could get a special order food or not. Help brought us our drinks, other than that it was the usual types of food. But this food was good. Great bacon, eggs were real. Left a tip. We wanted to make up some time so we stopped at th...
20180603 - IA-AZ
Got delayed 3 hours because of a crash, details somewhere below. Headed out of Guymon, OK at 7:15. Before we left I asked the gal at the desk about the partially built motel across the street. Seems whoever was building it thought there was going to be a new casino in town. Ground finally broke on...
20180602 - IA-AZ
Woke up to storms. (After a night of a recurring dream) Done raining by the time we were ready to go. Late start, breakfast wasn't until 7 AM because it was Saturday. Got through Kansas City at the posted speed limit. Not much traffic on Saturday AM. KS scale was closed. About the only thing of inte...
20180601 - IA-AZ
After two weeks of appointments of various kinds we are back on the road. Called Thursday morning and picked two runs going to Tucson. A couple of days ago it didn't show any cheap cars coming out of Phoenix anymore, but now there are again but we are still going to Tucson. Stopped on the way out of...
20180520 - IA-AZ
We did make it home Sunday. The usual trip, stop past Forest City to pick up our car. Fuel the rental car before returning it to the airport, terminal two. We have it down now so BB drives the rental car from Forest City, stops and fuels it. I drive our car 65 mph without stopping and get to the air...
20180519 - IA-AZ
Scenery hasn't changed much in a couple of days. We are following the same route and stopping at most of the same places coming home as on the way out. First stop is Mullenville at a Cenex. Didn't stop there on the way out but did stop here the prior trip this way. This was going to be our rest stop...
20180518 - IA-AZ
Early for the west coast. We had eaten breakfast and were rolling by 7:30. Very few other cars had left yet. Today is mostly freeway, retracing our path back to Forest City. First stop is a rest area across the highway from the City City Truckstop near a town called Acoma Pueblo. From BB drove so I...
20180517 - IA-AZ
Yesterdays BK did not sit well with me so this AM I just have two cartons of yogurt even though there are eggs and sausage. Back off the Interstate. The reason we are taking a detour is right near Holbrook. They are replacing a railroad crossing. The road is mostly like I remember it. The first leg...
20180516 - IA-AZ
Only heard three trains last night. One before 10 PM and the other two after 5 AM, so either those were the only ones or I slept right through them. It was a late night so we didn't get going until 8:30. Still hope to make it 600 miles (something we haven't done yet) At the NM scale we show are perm...
20180515 - IA-AZ
Not an early morning, finally got going by 8 AM. All they had for yogurt this morning was strawberry banana. My guess is there was a piece of banana in mine but when I felt a chunk of something go down I quit eating it. Other flavors do have pieces of fruit, just no used to banana... if that is what...
20180514 - IA-AZ
Off for a few days for a number of reasons. The board out of IA has stayed between 140 and 240 for the last three weeks. No shortage of work. We were packed and ready to leave last night and then didn't. If we had, we would have been able to make it to CA and back before my dentist appt. Now we have...