2 RV's heading west. 1 to Carson City NV, 1 to Davis

... spending the night at Tooele / Lake Point UT

Breakfast wasn't until 7 AM this morning so we got a later start. Pre-packaged items. I had a ham croissant.

When I start my RV there is an alarm going off. My landing gear is down. On RV's they call it the stabilizers, it looks like they are auto now, no more crawling under the RV to get it level.

All stops today are roughly 100 miles. That is just where the cities are in WY and we don't do 200 mile legs.

1st stop is at the Port of Entry in WY. Lot is full when we get there, almost empty when we leave a few minutes later. Just before we got to the scale an RV transporter past us doing <> 75 mph. They were in line at the POE but I didn't get a chance to talk to them. Not sure the big rush. Can't deliver until Monday.

2nd stop is an Exxon in Laramie for fuel. Fuel is $.70 cheaper here than one of the truck stops at the next exit. Also found out here that I can't squeeze more fuel in to make it a round number. Ran a little fuel on the ground.

3rd stop is at the TA/Subway in Rawlins for food. No one in line when we got there so we ate inside. There was a line by the time we were done eating. We could have been in and out in 15 minutes but we needed a half hour break so we each looked at our phones.

4th stop was at the Shell on the west side of Rock Springs for fuel. They only have one diesel pump for the cars and one side of that was tied up with someone who was having 'issues.' So we both waited for the other pump. This is a ma-pa truckstop and the fuel was still $.65 a gallon less than the majors.

5th stop was at the rest area by Evanston. Most times we stop at the Flying J but this isn't as congested. Only one other car today.

It is going to be dark when we get to Salt Lake City but if we don't we will need to be up well before daylight to make it close to our first drop. Sun. It's been sunny all day and the sun is so low in the sky it comes in the side window most of the day. Not bad if you have a visor. BB does not, hers are locked in place and can't be moved to the side windows.

6th and final stop is the Comfort Inn in Tooele. Walk across the street to the Flying J and get shelf food. Pizza. Most times we have done the Denny's but it is late and shelf food is fast.

My miles per gallon have been going up and down since I started, mostly down. I had been at 14.8 at one point. The lowest I saw it was 12 something and now it is slowly going back up. To 13 something today. Still not great.

But I do like these Mercedes. Coming down the 5-6% grade and the speed and the rpms stay right where they are set. On the Fords the speed goes up and it tack's out at 4,000+.

Saw a few cops today. None close up or personal.

Weather stayed in the low 40's - high 30's all day.

Jockeying for position with the other trucks was the most excitement all day.

Did find out later tonight that one of our 'house guests' does have Covid, the other does not. Glad we are gone, were gone, going to be gone. Here on the road the only people we see have masks on and we aren't in any one place for more than a few minutes at a time. The rest of the time we are alone in our RV or in our motel room with each other.

Our 'house guest' is young and doing fine. But in MN the daily deaths are now up in the 50, 60, 70 range. And we haven't gotten to the holidays yet.

Tomorrow. We had planned on getting all the way to Carson City but there are not any motels to our liking. They may be why we stayed in Fernley last time we went to Carson City also. So an hour, hour and a half less drive time tomorrow. Should be off the road before dark. At least we won't be driving down the curvy mountains and through the city.

Lots of Willie radio today.

Load board

US - 174

IA - 66

MN - 2

WI - 2