2 RV's to Newark CA
... spending the night at Rocklin CA
Breakfast, choices are yogurt and Ding Dongs. We both choose the yogurt.
When we are down for breakfast I tell the gal at the front desk how good the food was from the food truck that parks in their lot. She knows, she baby sits one of his children. So she was also able to tell me that the truck has been there for a few years and used to be painted purple ... I do remember the truck being purple, but in the past we had always walked to the buffet at the casino.
When I check out some one different is at the desk and gives me two backs with juice boxes and ... Ding Dongs.
We start rolling right about 6:30 west coast time, the time our permits are good for.
1st stop is in Elko at the Sinclair. Half hour break. We also got subs at Port O Subs to eat later.
2nd stop is in Winnemucca at the Mavrick. We are just used to stopping here we never looked at prices, we could have save another $2 by fueling at Flyin J today.
No place to park anything other than cars at Mavrick so we drove into town and parked behind the Quality Inn and ate in the parking lot. We also went in and used the rest rooms. Sign on the door is No Mask, No Service.
The sign on Loves now says opening soon, but all that is up so far is the frame so not real soon.
We did meet one bus today and a few other transporters but nothing much. Lots of Cruise America and other RV's on the road this holiday weekend.
3rd stop is the Flyin J in Fernley for the rest room. Another half hour break. Here I was able to get a hold of the rental car place after a few re-dials and they can pick us up tomorrow. On line it says they need a 24 hour notice (and I had written it down at noon, but forgot.) On the phone they said they need a one hour notice.
4th stop is Donners Pass to call dispatch. I am to call at 4 and we get there about 3:30 so we have another half hour break. I call at 4 and we are going to .... DES MOINES IOWA. Can't get much closer to home than that. I thought he was going to get me some more information so we waited a while and then decided to stop again down the road.
We stopped a half hour later at the next rest area long enough to see that I hadn't gotten anything so we kept going.
5th and final stop is the Comfort Inn in Rocklin CA. The place is full of tree trucks and other trucks. We find a big enough place to park the RV's in among the cars.
Masks required. None of the comp things are in the room, you have to ask for what you want. Once someone, other than the staff, touches something it has to get thrown.
We walk next door to Arby's. No indoor seating but we can order indoors. After the great French Dip I had yesterday at Quiznos I decided this wouldn't measure up and got a gyro instead. BB got a salad. We ate in the room.
Not sure yet if we will be back tomorrow night. There is no where to park the bus on the lot but I asked and we can park in the SureStay (Best Western) dirt parking lot.
Not much exciting today other than a paid ride almost home.
Loadboard
WI - 37
MN - 1
WI - 7
US - 98
Tomorrow we should deliver in the AM, then it is a half hour to the bus and be back here by the PM if all goes well. As of now, I can run 10 hours a day for the next three days and then I'm limited to 8 or less hours a day for the next couple of days. Hopefully I don't use all 10 hours and the all days will be about equal. I think we will be in IA on Tuesday but likely won't deliver until Wednesday. Then home and we are on vacation starting Friday ... a week from tomorrow.