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 position going up and down the hills. Lunch is meatloaf. Last time I got a meal, this time BB and I split the meal and it was still plenty.

Another hour and a half and we are at Barstow to fuel. It looks like they might have CA-58 done so that it is four lanes all the way from Bakersfield to Barstow by next year. Doing the railroad overpass now, the road bed is already graded. At Barstow, out of four CNG hoses, only one is still working. So we had to wait about a half hour before the other person was done. Then it only took us about 15 minutes, but no receipt again. So I took a picture.

Another 2-1/2 hours and we were to Needles, CA. Plan was to stop at the Jack-in-the-Box to eat. The whole lot was gated off, not sure if it is out of business or they are just rebuilding. No signs either way. So we ate at the McDonalds instead. It was 113 degrees a few minutes before we stopped. Should have parked a little closer to the door with at that temp.

Go go go. 20 miles down the road and we have to stop at the AZ Port of Entry for our permit. Topack is the city on the permit. Not a crowd this time so I asked the person about getting permits online. Yes, they can be gotten online since April 1. So the permit person who wished people would stop spreading rumors was wrong. It can be done, they just aren't doing them yet. Also this person today said it may be mandatory to have them before you cross into the state, but they didn't have a date for that yet. So now I get to talk to someone again out this.

Most of an hour and we are at the Quality Inn in Kingman. First he puts us on one end of the building but when he finds out we are walking/can't park in front of our door, he moves us to one of the three rooms in the main building. Someone slept there so the room is named after them. They were in a movie back in the 50's.

It took almost/over an hour to get my permit printed. The guest computer doesn't print anymore, I miss typed in their email, but it didn't bounce back right away and they couldn't figure out how to print it from a memory stick. BB was sleeping by the time I got back to the room.

There had been a truck from Kansas City to Blaine, MN on the board for about a day. Someone grabbed it today, I couldn't have grabbed it until tomorrow.

Not sure if I mentioned before, the tires on this bus are rated at 55 mph. But the bus is not governed at 55. So have to watch it close. Driving slower will add about three hours to this trip, so that means 5 hours Monday instead of 2 hours. Actually because of the spacing of motels it would have been less than 2 hours on Monday.