Made to order omelets are included in today’s breakfast. I’m still way to full from yesterday’s meals so I just grab a yogurt and a piece of bacon. BB does have an omelette.
We pull out at 7:30 local, next exit we fuel at Cruel Jacks. I only put in the four gallons I think I will need to get to Evanston.
I’m down to about a 1/16 of a tank when we get to the Flying J in Evanston. So I wouldn’t have needed the full four gallons but I’m guessing I might not have made it on only two gallons.
From here it’s mostly downhill to SLC and I end up making 11 miles to the gallon instead of the 8 I think I’m making most of the time. Did see one dead cow in the ditch, don’t see that very often. Also noticed something that I wonder why it isn’t done more often. I looks like someone had mowed off the sagebrush on the top of a hill. I would think it would be much better grazing of more of the sagebrush were chopped off. Guessing it’s not cost effective.
Also noticed that the trees over a certen elevation have lost all of their leaves.
Grass is already trying to green where the fire had just been west of SLC.
Next stop was the Flying J in Tooele for fuel for me. It’s cheaper here than anywhere beyond and it would be close trying to make it from Evanston to Winnemucca. Plan had been to eat in Wendover 100 miles down the road but BB was hungry now. We both got our usual Denny’s. Grilled chicken for her and a chicken philly for me.
We could see rain in the distance when we left Tooele, turns out it wasn’t that far away. Very small cloud, just a few miles across. But it poured hard, had to slow down. Also saw a few flashes of lighting. All the while we could see blue sky and sun shine just ahead even in the worst of it.
We stopped at the Sinclear on the Bonnieville exit. Diesel here is $.40 cheaper than the Pilot about two miles away. Lots of hunks of salt lying around. One place it looked like someone had kicked the salt buggers off their car. Four piles by where the tires would have been.
Our permit was for 12:30 for Nevada, we got there about 1:15 so not too far off. Before we get to our next stop we have to go into an inspection area. We didn’t have to stop, but there were five others already parked there. Usually there is either no one stopped a just one.
Next stop was Elko, we stopped at the Maverick, but I think this was the last time we’ll stop there. We first stopped here because of cheap fuel. Since that time we’ve just been stopping to use the restrooms. We had talked of parking across the street at the closing Kmart, but there was room when we pulled in. When we came out the delivery semi was backing up to the front door and got within a few inches of BB’s RV when he was turning. Then people were going to try to get between his trip and our RV’s so we pulled across the street to a grocery parking lot just to get out of the way.
BB had looked at the radar and there was a big storm heading our way. We managed to just hit the front end of it. Mostly wind, but there were flash flood warnings.
BB was going to stop at a Maverick once we got to Winnemucca, but it wasn’t on the main drag so we went straight to the motel. The in house restaurant is closed until tomorrow AM. We may have eaten there once, but since then we have walked across the street to The Pig. Good food again as always. Got back to the motel and realized I had forgotten my key in the room so we had to get another one. No issue other than the time.
Quality Inn. I’m not able to connect to WiFi tonight, BB says she has.
The board is showing an RV out of Oregon to Kentucky. We’ll see if it is still there on Thursday morning. I’ve already told the bus dispatcher that I am going to be in town, so I want to see what he has … and the RV’ dispatchers close two hours before I find out about a bus. So I would have to wait until the next morning to call on the RV if I don’t get a bus. BB doesn’t like the idea of driving 500 miles to get a run … and this place is known to say they have something, but when the driver gets there it may still be days before it is ready.