2 RV's to IN

... spending the night at Albert Lea MN

Breakfast was HOT FOOD. Scrambled eggs and sausage patties. More like a mix of sausage and ham. Plus yogurt.

Then we sat and waited. Then got a late check out.

At noon we went to Erbert and Gerbert's and got sandwiches that we ate in the van. We had thought of eating outside but a brisk wind today.

Sometime this AM I found and started emailing our tech support about my new phone not being able to load their website. I tried a few things and then they wanted me to shut down my phone. No can do without setting up a program called Bixby that sounds like it will take over my phone. No thanks. At this point I have not shut down my phone since I have gotten it. Maybe some day while I am home I will let it go dead so that it has to re-start.

Still no work so we headed to the local state park and took a walk.

After the walk we sat at Love's, because it was on the right side of the road. Finally at 4:30 we called in and took two RV's to IN that had been out there for a few days. We will pick those up tomorrow and deliver on Thursday and be back for our next RV's on Friday ... that is our plan.

The load board was 13 last night. As soon as dispatch opened it dropped to 8 where it stayed for a couple of hours. Then at about 10:30 they added 7.

I didn't write down the rest of the day because we had left the motel. But they added 11 after 12 noon, when we thought they would be on lunch so we weren't watching.

Then they added a few more about 3 PM and the final 3-4 the added after 4 PM. Nothing matched. There were some good ones but never at the same time. CA, FL, but we don't make any money if we just take one and we can't gamble on something else showing up.

So we are going to MI, our drops are a couple of hours apart but almost right on route. And when we drop it is a one day rental back to Mason City. We have looked at picking up something to take back from IN or IL with but by the time we subtract a motel and an extra day rental they aren't worth doing.

If two good runs show up out of IN we may take those instead of coming back to IA at all.

Too late to pick up our RV's tonight, since covid there is no after hours pickups. And we had waited all day for 'something better.' We will get going tomorrow early, when they open and will get to one side or the other of Chicago for the night. If we don't make it past Chicago tomorrow we will have a little over an hour to do in the AM and we should be going mostly against rush hour traffic.

We check back into the Comfort Inn. We are using some of our 380,000 points tonight. About 10,000 of them.

We walk next door to the truckstop and see that our Iron Skillet is closed. So I find someone to ask. Yes, it is closed forever. We have eaten a couple of dozen or more meals there. :( Pizza Hut was also closed, at least tonight. We had planned on pizza until we walked over and lost the mood before we saw it was closed.

Load board

US - 151

IA - 17

MN - 1

WI - 5

The trip from MLW to DSM is still out there.