More mistakes, this time our fault. Still heading home.

1st stop Flying J, Fernley, NV

2nd stop TA Taco Bell, Mills City

3rd stop Sinclair, Elko

4th stop RA Wendover, UT

5th stop Arby's and Comfort Inn, Tooele, UT

At this pace we should be home Saturday AM. Won't leave out again until close to the new year.

Depending on the mileage, we will make real close to -0- this trip. Not including what we lost to theft.

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(The rest is written a few days after the fact)

By morning we are starting to think things through ... we realized that everything we/I needed to drive we could have gotten online or from the local dispatcher. The big think, my plate, I still had. Now BB had all of her stuff back so all I was missing was my DOT medical card and I we could either get that faxed from one of the companies or find it in our email out box from six months. But we were still so keyed up that it is very likely would still be not thinking things through.

BB called to get the car dropped in MN. They were now out of cars (due to broken windows?) Yes, it was going to cost us double what we thought and get us real close to -0- income for both of us for our 10-days/two weeks.

We also call one of our companies back and told them that BB has her plate back, but I do not have the required original paperwork to turn into the shipper. That ball is in their court now.

As we are walking down to breakfast we are behind someone and when they round the corner, BB quietly says that he looks like a homeless guy wanting a free breakfast. I did keep an eye on the guy and he seemed lost in looking for stuff. And then the staff comes over and asks which room he is staying in ... I guess they had their eye on him also.

When we went to check out, I asked the staff about him. His room number checked out and so did his name. I guess there is construction crew staying here that works the overnight and sleeps days. He could have been one of them, just getting off his shift.

We are going against rush hour and because of the calls we had to make this AM we are running a little later than usual. We can tell there is new snow on Donner's Pass since we went though last.

... and we paid special attention to where the first NV inspection station was. It's a good thing we did. It is before our first motel coming from the west. I had thought we could get to the motel and then get a permit. Not so, we would need to stay somewhere in Truckee. And today the inspection is open. 1st sign is blinking, the 2nd one isn't. But they were open.

1st stop is the Flying J in Fernley, it shouldn't be. It is on the wrong side of the freeway and a pain to get to, not so bad getting out. A Pilot at the exit before is on the correct side of the freeway.

At up to 80 mph we are making good time, but it doesn't put us at our usual spots. It also doesn't do much for the mileage, and neither does a 10 gallon tank. Out here and a few other places it can be 50 miles between fuel stops. Once we realize we aren't going to make it to Winnemucca, we slow way down. Then decide to not try.

Out in the middle of nowhere is Mills City, NV with a TA and a Taco Bell. Food and fuel. We sit inside as Taco's aren't easy to eat driving. I actually got a quesadilla so I would have been OK. We were down to under a 40 mile range when we stopped and the range had been dropping twice as fast as the miles for the last 50 miles.

Winnemucca ... is getting a new Love's. They are just starting to move the dirt but I can see the sign in the driveway from the freeway. Just SW of the Flying J on the opposite side of the freeway.

3rd stop, back to the Sinclair in Elko. Quick in and out. I did get a couple of munchies.

We are listening for the rocks that did a number on my RV, no rocks, no snow, and not following any of those gravel trucks.

We had talked about stopping in Wendover for the night, rooms are a lot cheaper and there is a buffet, but at some point we decide to push on past dark.

4th stop is the RA/Welcome center in UT. About mile marker 9 heading east. At this point it is still light and we have another 90 miles to go. Sun sets, moon rises. Full moon over the salt flats. Would make some great pictures with a time exposure. With a phone it just shows up as a white dot.

5th and final. We decide to stop to eat before we go to the motel. Neither of us are up to a sit down and the only two of them are Denny's and Country Pride. We decide to try the new Arby's. It went up sometime during the summer when we weren't driving. I had noticed it on our November trip and posted pictures on TripAdvisor.

When we got there, we were about the only ones there. The gal at the counter was having issues trying to find what we wanted on her register. We went and sat down right by the drive thru lane. For some reason I took not of the cars and pickup in line. We got our food, BB's was wrong, if they had repeated it back to us I wasn't paying attention. BB started walking up to the counter but by now there was a line and we had heard the person at the register was having issues with other customers and someone else in the kitchen was really getting cranky. BB decided to eat the sandwich. I'm not a fast eater, we are usually pushed to get in and out of a fast food place in 30 minutes. So I'm guessing we were here at least 30 minutes. The drive thru lane had not moved, not one car. Even as we drove out, they were all still sitting thee.

... and when we drove out a semi decided to pull out just as we were going past. He'd been parked there and just started moving right then. Missed us.

Traffic was bad this time of the day, no light to get back on the highway but people that were stopped did leave us enough room to cross the traffic.

A block away was our motel, the Comfort Inn in Tooele/Lake Point. They had cookies :) Much better than the Grandma's brand I had bought earlier in the day.

I am lost at night without a computer and it is too hard to try and type on my cell phone. So I read a few things, was able to get a couple of passwords changed and went to bed early.

They are putting a few things on the board out of IA, but when it is at -0- the runs come and go pretty fast.