Breakfast in the former Denny's. This place was attached to a Denny's and back then we got fresh food made to order. Denny's has been gone for three months and they are serving the usual motel breakfast foods. The person I asked didn't know if anything was going to replace Denny's.

The parking lot filled up last night. Someone had backed almost up to the back of my bus. When we were out for our walk last night we had walked around the building and we saw that the back section, about a third of the rooms, are not being used ... and this morning we realized that our door was about 10 feet from the butt can / smoking area in this '100% smoke free building.'

It is daylight when we pull out this morning. 7 am local, but 8 am a few miles down the road. We are back in central time.

1st stop is less than an hour down the road we stop at the Flying J in North Platte. Luckily they are not too busy on a holiday morning. I am able to back in behind someone and so I can get my DEF. My DEF is on the right side but the truckstops build all DEF stations to be fueled from the left. (Why not some of each I don't know) I put in 5 gallons of DEF and 57 gallons of diesel. Stop didn't work on the diesel so a wee bit went on the ground. The nozzle wouldn't stay in the tank so I had been holding it the whole time.

My commercial fuel discount card is almost worn out so it doesn't always work. Yesterday I asked someone at the desk of that Flying J for a knew card and they said I would have to ask my company. This Flying J had them on display at the fuel desk. So I grabbed one. Now I need / want to get someone to move all my points to my new card. If they can't do that I will just used up the points on the old card and add all new points to my new card. While looking at my cards tonight I see that my gas discount card for Flying J has the numbers already worn off and that card is less than two years. old.

Right now I have over $50 on my Flyin J card, $20 plus on my Kwik Trip card and likely about $10-20 on Loves and Petro cards. Also have a few points on a Sapps card ... I think that is all.

We did a quick stop in Kearney, NE. BB ran in quick at the rest area. I just drew a line in my log book and she was back out and we were rolling. We had planned on taking a half hour here but did this instead.

Lunch was at the Iron Skillet in York. Still no salad bar for me until after I get my blood levels under control. I had fried chicken, pot roast, (bland) potato soup, noodles plus a couple of kinds of deserts. Iron Skillet and Country Pride no longer give points for food so now I need to find out how much is on my rewards card for them and use them up. There is a new buy 10 get 11th one free but I haven't signed up for that yet.

When we went past Lincoln, I noticed our former place to stay, the Quality Inn Airport is out of business. It must be a poor area for business right now. A half dozen motels have down graded names or closed. Perkins closed a few weeks ago just a couple of blocks away from there. Not sure the reason.

Somewhere before Omaha there was a burnt out car in the oncoming left lane. Fire fighters were still standing there with their hoses, cars going past in one lane. I hadn't seen smoke or at least not noticed it.

As we went through Council Bluffs we noticed that the Golden Corral is back open after a few months/year of being closed.

Two hours after the last stop we stop at the rest area near Underwood, IA. This one we do take 15 minutes as we have been doing the math all day and have time to make it to Des Moines.

Right after we pulled out of York earlier I must have hit a swarm of bugs. Within a few minutes the windshield had bugs less than two inches apart over most of it. All the same kind of bug.

Now that the corn is almost ripe, we can see how bad the hail damage was around Omaha. Some west of Omaha but mostly east.

Lots of transporters again today. UPS trucks, rolloff, garbage, cement, bus, half dozen FedEx vans, dozens of RV's and maybe as many as 100 travel trailers.

Stop for the night is the brand new Sleep Inn in Ankeny. Once we knew we'd make it past Omaha, we started looking to see how much past. The price was right on this one this time. Other times we've looked at it, it was too high. We were the 1st ones here tonight so I got my choice of where to park. There is room all the way around so there should always be room.

Food next door was at Outback. We split Onion Buds and a Philly. BB had Onion soup and I had potato. Much better than the Iron Skillet. The only other food for these dozen motels is Waterfront Seafood and they looked to be closed for the day / holiday.

Finally. IF we get going by 7 am tomorrow, we should be in the Twin Cites by noon/1 pm and delivery closes at 3 pm. Called tonight to find out that the truck wash in Albert Lea is open and it also is less than 100 miles from the drop which is their goal. Do need to call the drop tomorrow AM and let them know I am coming and to find out where to enter their lot and find someone.

Also need to line up local work for Thursday and Friday. Plan on going on a genealogical expedition next week and then back on the road a week from Thursday.