Alarm went off at 5:30 ...

I need my 34 hour restart and I logged off at 9 pm Friday night so we can't get going this AM until 7 am. Breakfast looked good, but I just had one cup of yogurt. I am still stuffed from last night, way too much food. A single piece of pie would have done me.

From Albert Lea to Forest City is about 45 minutes. Some places the water is still high from 10 days ago, other places it has started to recede.

It took our usual one hour to do our inspection. The board is now down to 20+ after people grabbed Saturday and the lot looks it. Only one other person in the lot, he came in via taxi and was heading to 1,000 Oaks ... he passed us a couple of times later in the day.

No issues with the units, it just takes time to look everything over. BB has almost a half a tank and I have about a quarter, beats both being on empty. Down side is that one is gas and one is diesel. Some places have gas $.40 cheaper than most in the area, others have diesel $.40 cheaper than most. Few have both the cheapest. That I have about twice the range that she does so I don't need to fuel as often.

BB stops in Forest City at Casey's, that is the cheapest diesel. I stop at the Flying J in Clear Lake, that is the cheapest gas.

From there we make it to the QT in Des Moines where BB fuels again, doesn't have to already but that will get us so she fuels one stop and I fuel the next. Works out for me this time two as I take it all as off duty. We eat at the Burger King there.

Interesting change of motels at this intersection. There had been a Red Roof, that changed to a Comfort Inn and almost right away changed again to a Quality Inn. The place next door has been going down hill for the last 10+ years under various names. Recently it had been a Rodeway Inn for a while but for going private label. Today it is the Red Roof Inn. They would have had to do a lot of work to get that up to par. I stayed there a few years ago before it was downgraded to a Rodeway and it was bad already then.

Next stop was the Pilot in Council Bluffs for fuel for me, bathroom break for BB.

After that was a fuel stop at the Phillips in Waco. Fuel there was $.30 less than five miles down the road. Interesting place. the restaurant is closed. Half the truck islands are closed, one of the car islands is half closed, bathrooms are closed. We had to stop a couple of miles down the road at the rest area to use the bathrooms.

Original plan was to make it to Kearney, but we've made good time so we will make it to at least Lexington. We stop at Lexington for food and decided to keep going. In Lexington we eat at the Arbey's. I get a smokehouse brisket and go back and ask them where the onions are, they have to point them out to me so that I see them. Nowhere close to what the pictures look like or what I have gotten at other locations. I emailed to complain when I got to the motel. If I had seen the sign, we would have both gotten a Gyro, 2 for $6.

... oh, forgot about this in my complaint. They were out of ROAST BEEF ....???

Just because, we drove for another half hour to Gothensburg to a Comfort Suites. It's not going to gain us anything other than a nicer motel. If we had stayed in Kearney it would have made for a 570 mile day Monday. Now both Monday and Tuesday should be 500-550. We'd have to push over 600 to make it any further. After our motels then next two nights, it is another 100 miles before the next major town.

Did see a lot of windmill pieces on trailers. Six at one rest area, lots more coming down the highway.

Other than that, not much new on this stretch of I-80. Looks the same as the last few trips. Not sure anyone can tell where we are on the map anymore.

Tomorrow we need to call our drop, call for permits and call dispatch about a bus out of CA. Did meet one heading to Cleveland today.