Elko, NV to Rockin, CA (California, not Canada)

Breakfast was a little more crowded this AM than prior nights. Food was the usual, eggs, sausage, yogurt. Haven't gotten back to one or the other yet. This place had 'enhanced water,' I had the mango. Yep, it was water.

Got going again close to sun up. As we get close to the freeway a cop pulls on the freeway ahead of me. By the time I am to the top of the ramp he is sitting in the median. A couple of miles down the road I can see flashing lights ahead, then a cop (not sure if it was the same one) passes me but doesn't stop by the truck pulled over. This cop goes up to another cop sitting in the median, and then the 3rd cop does a U-turn and goes back and helps cop #2. Not sure what kind of a system the have going on.

Did see some wildlife today, pronghorn deer. Saw a few this trip, but the total we saw was smaller than lots of herds we have seen on most trips west.

For the 1st couple of days I thought I was doing pretty good at keeping my speed close to 65 mph. BB never seemed to get to close or too far behind. THEN she told me that she had the 'accident assist' on. The computer was keeping her from every getting closer than a half a block from me :( Guess I wasn't doing so good after all.

1st stop was going to be the Chevron in Winnemucca, cheaper than the truckstops and not as crowded. But a Mavrick has a new sign so I pulled over on the exit ramp to check prices and we went there instead. It looked like there had been a new Mavrick at Battle Mountain too ... I don't remember those tall signs. $.42 a gallon cheaper. That is worth changing plans. I little off the freeway and have to go under a railroad bridge but worth it. Looks brand new.

2nd stop was going to be Denny's in Fernley at first but we looked for something else. We found it. Black Bear Diner. Lots of parking and not too far off the freeway. The don't have the chicken salad sandwich I liked anymore, but the meat loaf was good. Soup was good, sweet potato fries were good ... BB said my veggies were good. And this was the small portion. BB had soup and a half a sandwich. I might have if they had had a better choice of soup.

Clear, or almost clear sailing through Reno today. Nice to not have the sun in our eyes. Lots of times we are trying to get to Boomtown by dark, not fun.

Wore my 'new' glasses I got six months ago for the first time. Bifocals. Survived. Not a fan. I tilled my head down to look at the odometer through the top part more often than adjusting my eyes to the lower part. Took them off as soon as we got to the motel.

3rd stop, Donners Pass rest area. Today was a day of 2nd choices. If we are going straight to delivery, our next stop after Fernley is the Gold Run rest area. But I thought Donners would have a better chance of having snow ... it didn't. I like seeing the 1st snow the season and the last snow. Not so excited to see the snow in between. Also Donners was closer to half way between Fernley and Roseville than Gold Run.

4th and final stop. Roseville, Rocklin at the Comfort Inn. Nice large parking lot and lots of food within feet and lots more within a mile. Opps we should have filled in Battle Mountain instead of Winnemucca. We both still have a range of 150+ with 44 miles to go. Battle Mountain would have cut 50 miles off of that at the same price per gallon. And 40-50 range is where I'd like to be when I do final fuel.

Once we were checked in, we went for our walk. I had looked at a map enough to see that there was a route where we wouldn't have to cross the street other than at the stop light by our motel. We usually walk for a half hour and at a half hour we weren't back yet, we were in front of the Beir Garten. So that is where we ate. Good German food. BB had a brat and cabbage and I had a reuben sandwich and soup. When the waiter said they had potato, vegetable soup I thought it was two kinds. Nope. a broth soup not a cream soup.

From there we still had a 10 minute walk home. When we left the restaurant we thought it was kind of empty for a Saturday night ... it was getting dark ... but it was only 4:30 local :)

Now we are here for the day tomorrow. Lots of good places to eat and likely will get a couple walks in, besides those that take us to and from the motel.

It is 3,200 miles from CA to Bangor, ME. Not much chance I'll get that run but it's worth looking at.