We need to attend a safety meeting twice a year to receive our bonus pay based on miles driven. If we hadn't stayed in town for this meeting we could have been back on the road Sunday.

No motel breakfast this AM, they will feed us twice at the meeting.

We get to Forest City before 8 am. Sign in starts at 8, breakfast at 8:30. Sometimes it's been various types of egg bake but today it is biscuits and sausage gravy. Plus bakery items and fruit.

The day starts with a presentation on exercise, followed by one on diabetes ... almost everything on both the breakfast and lunch menu went against everything we heard during those two presentations. :)

After that we headed outside to the 'drunk / distracted driving course.' The local police were there with a golf cart and testing anyone who wanted. People weren't drunk, but the police had a pair of goggles that altered what you could see ...

Then there was the dunk tank, followed by a short update meeting before eating lunch. Didn't see any of the people we had met other years at these meetings. Talked a little to some new ones.

I talked to the guy from corp, trying to find out where other loads were that didn't show up on the board like the buses not showing up on the board. Not sure if he didn't understand or he was just avoiding answering but I never did get an answer.

We finally got to the lot by 2 pm and out of the lot by 3 pm. Had to wait to get our paperwork and had to do our pre-trips where we sat. 100+ at the meeting and maybe a third of them were trying to head out when we were.

Not a good start. There is cable that is supposed to stop the 'hood' from falling too far down ... it wasn't attached. Then once I got going down the road a floor panel between the seats blew off exposing the engine inside the RV and pushing all the hot air from the engine into the RV. Further down the road the cruise stopped working for a while ...

Our first stop was at the Pilot in Clear Lake for fuel. $2.69 ... 90 miles down the road we saw it for $2.59 ... and I put in almost 60 gallons.

From there we made it all the way to our motel in West Des Moines. This may be a duplicate of last trip. Tonight was spent in the Sleep Inn. We had talked of just going to McD's after our two big meals today but I looked online and saw a place that had a chicken salad sandwich ...

Turns out that was the lunch menu and I got a steak sandwich instead. And it was a steak on bread, not something I usually order. And BB got a Salmon BLT. This was at the Fire Creek. Good food but more that we needed for more than we needed to spend.

With tomorrow being Friday we need to make calls to the drop, for permits and about getting a bus heading back east.