2 RV's to Manteca CA 

... spending the night in Winnemucca NV

Rough couple of nights for sleeping. I sleep, but not well. The good news is I haven't been tired during the day.

Bad news this AM is that I have a bruise on my arm that looked like it just happened, and it got darker during the day. I also had a huge bruise on the other arm a few weeks ago much bigger and darker than this one. I have no idea where or how I got either one of them. Looks like I'm starting to have 'old people's issues.'

Other bad news is that my BP is back up to where it was before I started taking this last medication. So I see another phone visit with the Dr in my future.

Breakfast today is a bag lunch. Bottle of water, an apple, a muffin and a breakfast bar. Motel price is good still, under $50.

We get going around 8 AM local. It's (almost) all down hill for the next two hours. I gain a range of about 40 miles. We have to cross the UT scale, haven't had an issue here with this company yet.

Coming down the hill in places I would tap the breaks to keep the speed down. Brake light comes on and stays on.

1st stop is past Salt Lake in Tooele/Center Point at the Flying J. Sign says masks must be worn except at Denny's so we go back to our RV's and get our masks. And we are the only people we see going in, in and heading out that are wearing masks except the employee's.

I had checked the break fluid when we got to Flying J and when I re-started the RV to leave the break light was out. Whew.

When we leave UT we have to cross a second scale. Right across from this scale is the inbound scale ... and a bus ... going to Duluth MN :)

2nd stop is for fuel and food at Pilot in West Wendover. I see transporters parked, see one person who says Hi as I'm fueling that I think is a transporter. Then when we park to go in we talk to the guy I had seen earlier. He used to work for our company but now works for companies out of IN where he lives.

I had called for our NV permits before we left the motel this AM and gotten mine emailed to me shortly after. We can't find BB's in our email so I call. Finally at the same time they re-send, BB finds it in the junk box. But wireless service here is so slow it hadn't updated before I had called.

We eat at an Arbey's inside Pilot. And we eat indoors, first time since March. Only one other couple in the sitting area and maybe four customers at the counter the half hour we were there.

Other transporter was still talking to other transporters when we left, we never did see any of them again.

3rd stop is in Elko at our Sinclear for a break. Didn't pay attention to see if anyone was wearing masks, BB did so I did this time.

Somewhere between our 3rd and 4th stops we saw three more Duluth buses. That would be nice but how may is Duluth getting? I couldn't find anything online.

4th stop is the Maverick in Winnemucca for fuel. Neither pump gives us receipts so I end up going in twice. With no mask. Another couple of miles down the road and we are at the Quality Inn for the night. The attached casinos just re-opened yesterday AM and we thought maybe this place would be busy, it's not. Neither were the little casino area's at the other places we stopped. Not busy, but no one taking much for precautions.

Desk clerk had on a mask, but the restaurant seem to be open with no (visible) restrictions.

We called to order food across the street from the motel at the Pig. Food would be ready in five minutes and it was ready when we got there. This town used to have little flags you were supposed to carry as you crossed the street. They have all been removed for now. Not sure if is because no one is in town or they could carry covid with so many uses per day.

I had the French Dip, BB had a chicken salad. Good food. haven't had bad food there yet. I think all the staff there had masks, some where on their face ... or neck ... or forehead.

After we were done eating we went down for a walk, first we noticed all the people, then the sand. Everyone seems to be lining up like they are waiting for a parade, but nothing is listed on any of the event websites in town. Maybe this is what they do here every Friday night.

We walked a total of eight minutes out and back. Sand blowing, even the hills in the distance are hazy from the blowing sand.

So far BB is still doing the cleaning every night at the motel. I had given it three nights, this is night four. She wipes down all the surfaces we are likely to use with Lysol wipes.

Load board has been over 90 for the last 15 days, and over 100 for half of those days.

We are still debating where we are going to stay for the next two nights. Because of our permit we need to be out of NV before noon tomorrow, otherwise we might have stayed one of the nights in Reno/Verdi. I am not a big fan of the area from Stockton to Bakersfield, in general it seems to be not well kept. And I've stayed in the area 10 years ago and didn't feel safe walking then ...

We know the area up at Rocklin now, but staying there would mean 80 miles Monday morning or drive that 80 on Sunday to stay in two different motels. That would mess with my hours but I don't see that as being an issue this trip. We've stayed at a nice Comfort Inn west of Manteca where we will be dropping. But they have very limited parking and not much food close by. (And last time we were there we saw someone eating out of the dumpster) ... it's also there that I had my last eye issue.

Nicest motel is less than a mile from the drop, a Best Western. I've spent a lot of time looking at the area and it does seem to be OK, not as nice homes as Rocklin but didn't see any rolled barb wire either. It does share a parking lot with a Chic-fil-a and there is an In-n-Out across the street. And there are stop lights.

We'll have to decide before we get too far tomorrow.