2 RV's to Davis, CA

... now delivered.

... spending the night in Livermore, CA.

Noisy heater in an otherwise great room. Didn't get as good or as much sleep as we should have.

No free breakfast here. We have to head down to Mel's Diner. Home of American Graffiti. Food is good. BB just ordered 1 egg, toast and fruit. I had 2 eggs, potatoes, bacon and biscuits and gravy. Nice thick bacon, but the gravy wasn't sausage gravy so it was lacking.

We gave ourselves an hour to eat instead of the usual 15 minutes. We were back in our room in 45 so quick service.

Headed out at 7:30 so we would clear the state line by 8 AM. A little chilly this AM but no frost on the windows. Traffic wasn't bad, roads were clear. Lots of hills and turns so a lot of time was spent going under the 65 mph posted. Just one question at the produce inspection station entering the state "Transporter?."

Snow is really getting dirty on the sides of the road, must have been a while since the last snow fall.

We have fueled last in Winnemucca and at that time our range said we would get to Sacramento with 2 miles to spare. By Lovelock we had 45 miles to spare, same in Verdi. I'm still not sure the range is going to hold so I've picked out a place to stop about half way to the drop in case we need to fuel.

We don't, we end up getting to the fuel stop with a range of 102. Way more than we would need to have, so we are leaving $30 worth of our fuel in the RV's before we put in final fuel.

Traffic is not bad in Sacramento, came through almost all the way at the posted. Nice time to come through either from Verdi or Rocklin, CA.

1st stop is the 49er truck stop in Sacramento. It is co-branded a Pilot but is not up to their standards. They are slowly working on improving it. Auto fuel pumps are hard to read, swiped my credit card and then it asked for my rewards, but never gave me the options of what to do with it, the screen froze and I had to go inside to pay.

Lot line, one cashier. I paid $20 cash to start the pump. Then had to go back in and wait in line to get a receipt with the gallons on it. BB's RV did not reset the range or tank amount. But she has a receipt that says she put in $20 and that's all that matters.

2nd stop, another 12 miles down the road and we are at the drop. They are working on this place so we have to go in a different way and wind between other RV's to get to where we need to be. One RV ahead of us. Only one person checking people in today so lucky it was slow.

All the chips on the windshield were written up, as were other chips on the paint both sides of the RV. On both RV's. No other issues. It took about a half hour each RV. BB walked over and picked up the rental car while we were waiting.

Once we were signed off we called our dispatcher. They are having so many issues with chips this time of year that we don't even need to call them into claims.

The guy checking us in said they are having issues with these units locking themselves. There also had been a note in the dispatchers office about the same thing. Keep one set of keys on your person at all times. The check in guy said BB's RV locked it's self three times just while he was doing the check in. ??? We hadn't had an issue, luckily.

3th stop - We are in CA, so we head to In-N-Out. And use our gift card :) Two double doubles. We are thinking maybe we should have them cut one and we share. Parking lot was so full that we drove around three times and then waited for someone walking out and took their spot.

No side trips this time, we just headed down to Livermore, traffic wasn't too bad going our direction, everyone seemed to be leaving town instead of heading across town.

4th stop - Livermore Outlets. We talked about staying away from crowded places because of the virus but went here anyways. All we do is use the restroom and then walk the perimeter. We only made it around once this time, 30 minute walk. That was enough for me today, yesterday didn't seem to bother me.

Called dispatch at the appointed time and was told there was no work today. I said we'd stay the weekend because it is much nicer here than back east ... to which he replied "If you stay, I'll pay the motels." :)

5th stop - We figured that BJ's with the great deserts would be packed on a Friday night, it is billed as a brew house. So we went up the street to a Mexican place instead. Order at the counter and then they delivery. When we walked in there was one person ahead of us finishing order, after we ordered the line was sometimes out the door. We ordered in so we were there for a while, great food. Lots of to-go orders.

Then about 5:30 the band starts to play. The way the restaurant is laid out they were basically playing to about 10 tables but everyone could hear it. Not sure why, but I can listen to some of the music for hours and not understand a single word.

Load board is at 47, still some for WA, but nothing for CA, OR, AZ or FL.

The other good thing about dispatch paying for the motel is that there WILL be work, just a question of when. Maybe not Monday as there are five ahead of me in motels. But maybe Tuesday.

We've been doing this for <> five years now and we just learned something today. And I had thought about earlier on this trip. One way cars are more, so we usually rent a one way car to get where we are going, and then rent a second car at a lower rate once we are there. Turns out that there is a one time drop charge so in today's case it was actually $40 cheaper to keep the one way car than switch once we got to Livermore. Still living and learning.

Saw a couple of things yesterday we don't see often. 1st I passing someone on the freeway at more than a snails pace and someone passed us both on the right shoulder. They had to be doing well over the 80 mph speedlimit.

2nd one was something we often see cars doing but seldom trucks. Truck drivers are really good about getting over to the left lane when there is a truck or anyone on the right shoulder. But often times when we do that, a car will pass us on the right (putting the sitting vehicle in more danger than if we had stayed there.) Yesterday I actually saw a truck pass on the right as the other trucks had moved to the left to avoid the parked truck.

Not sure yet what we will do tomorrow. It will likely involve driving somewhere.