1st stop, RA near Kearney, NE

2nd stop, Omaha at Flying J for fuel and Arby's to eat.

3rd stop just North of Des Moines on I35 at RA.

4th stop in Story City at the Pizza Ranch to eat and Comfort Inn for the night

Have local work lined up for Monday.

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We stay on our schedule, up when breakfast is served and rolling. Yogurt was outdated again, and the juice was bad, I didn't feel like complaining ... they charged me for a safe that was in the room last night. This is really rare, I didn't have them take it off, just tired of complaining.

BB was going to watch the sun come up but because of the hills, 1st it wasn't up, then we came around a hill and it was. next time.

I'm pretty sure nothing exciting happened in NE, it seldom does.

1st stop a RA near Kearney.

2nd stop was for fuel in Gretna at the Flying J, it was a cheaper with the discount card than anywhere else ... and again we had slowed down to make it. From here on we don't run that close on fuel.

Somewhere in NE I had gotten behind a truck and with the cruise set I stayed right there for well over a 100 miles, didn't gain on him, didn't loose him. Then we pulled off.

The 2nd 2nd stop was still in Gretna at an Arby's at the next exit, all Flying J had was a Denny's and roller food. BB got the correct sandwich at this Arby's.

We had planned on staying Ankeny, but it was only 2:30 when we got there. BB is really missing her walks, we haven't had time to walk since Monday before the theft. There is another Choice motel 45 minutes up the road in Story City. But it has been over two hours so ...

3rd stop in Elkhart at the Rest area. YES, I was sure I had seen a sign showing that these places were also inspection stations and then the signage was gone. This is the first time we have stopped since. Yes, there are marked places built and marked for truck inspections, just the signs on the highway are gone.

Earlier today I had called local dispatch, they called back while we were at the rest area so I talked to them. Working local on Monday ...

4th and final. We get to Story City and the Comfort Inn. Check in and then go for a walk. Plan was to walk in the parking lot next door, it used to be an outlet 'building,' but that closed a year or two ago and it has been redone and the one customer than originally moved in is gone already. But there is a great big paved lot ... of ice. So we got off the ice and walked on the grass and then the dirt road for most of a half hour. Got back to the motel and waited until closer to 5 PM to go eat.

Eat at the Pizza Ranch, more things that were stolen, my perks cards ... and the card from my surgery 35 years ago. When you order they ask if there is any kind of pizza you want. We should have said yes. The whole time we were there they did not put out one pizza with white sauce. At first there wasn't many pizza's as there wasn't many people, but they did keep bringing out new pizza's, just nothing better than the time before. There were a couple of non-pizza items that were good. A drink came with the meal so I tried the Hi-C, everything else had caffeine in it. Wow, I am not used to anything other than water and juice. Yuck.

Back at the room, again, nothing to do but read random stuff on the internet. Boring.