1 bus heading to Pittsburg PA (delivered)

... spending the night at home

Awake before the alarm, that is what happens when you are heading west. We ended up getting going an hour earlier than planned. We grabbed breakfast on our way out instead of eating in our room. No yogurt as I was driving. Got a cheese stick, pastry, fruit cup and juice. BB had similar but included yogurt and fresh fruit.

Some of the cars had frost but ours was face to the building so no scraping on the front and camera on the back so not scraping.

1st stop is at the Iowa 80 Truckstop in Walcott. Closer in miles to where we wanted to stop than the rest area's.

2nd stop was in Janesville at a Kwik Star / Kwik Trip for the rest room. BB went in, I didn't. She turned down free samples, I wouldn't have.

3rd stop was the Pilot for fuel. We weren't empty but would be close by the time we got to the rental car place. Also gas is usually cheaper here, but today it was awful close in price.

Then went across the street to McD's for burger and fries.

4th stop is at the office / lot to pick up our van. Breaks are still shot. No one picking up RV's while we are there. 'Our' lot is full so about 100 RV's. Our overflow lot is close to full so that is another 75. And those are not showing on our load board yet. Usually they do once they are parked there.

AND the shipper is now lining up RV's in their employee parking lot, maybe another 50 RV's waiting for ?? Plus all the partial RV's sitting by their buildings.

Today we saw a total of 5 RV's heading out. Not many for having 100+ in the lot.

We also saw two buses from my local company. Actually one was not our company, it is shipped from St Cloud heading to LA. The other might be ours, heading to Des Moines. If we end up in town a couple of days I will call and see if we can get one.

BB heads out first and I call our local shop, they can look at our van before we get back from our next trip.

BB has to fuel and also has stopped at a rest area and still pulls into the rental car place right behind me.

No more stops with the van, needs to get dropped off. When we get home we unload the van and head to the shop. While I am dropping the van, BB looks at the emails and sees the receipt for the rental car. She had not waited for one at the drop as there was a line behind her.

Because we dropped the car on the date prior to what we had said, they billed us one day at the daily rate and then by the hour for for the partial 2nd day. Hundreds of dollars more. When BB calls the local office, she is told that if they had charged her for two full days they would have been 'over charging her,' and that there is noting that can be done about it. Not good customer service.

When we get home, BB calls the main office and gets it corrected. Not likely to use that drop location again. It's quicker than dealing with the airport location but they need different help.

Load boards

US - 233

IA - 108

MN -0-

WI - 5

Nothing was loaded on to the IA loadboard until sometime after noon when we stopped watching. So no idea how many were added and grabbed right away. Now there are 3 CA's but all different locations. The other long runs are still out there.

As of tonight, we have not set a date when we are ready to go again. Hopefully we decide before they put something on the load board, then we can just grab it. I'd like to be gone soon and back by mid month. BB's glasses should be in by then and I need to get to the clinic by then. Once back we will work for our/my local company either local or we may trip a road trip for them this month.

... and the new pictures are posted on my main website.

Covid - MN has had a sudden drop in deaths the last couple of days. Down from 75-100 a few days ago to 20-30 the last couple of days. It may just be a reporting issue?

Covid reaction varies greatly. At the one truck stop in MO almost no one was wearing a mask, way less than 25%. Today in IA Mc'D's is back to drive thru only. Tonight a Zuppas Cafe we can order inside. But only five people in the store at a time and someone is more or less letting them in. We didn't know and that person had stepped away when we got in. Zuppas was fully staffed and doing a booming business of curbside and walk-in. Potbellies in the same parking lot was closed. A couple of other food places looked closed also, no cars, no lights.

Our 'house guest' that tested positive a couple of weeks ago is still not back to work. She works two jobs and one has her back on the schedule 10 days from now and the other hasn't said. So they are going way beyond the two weeks.

... and I saw on FB another person I know closer to my age had Covid about the same time. He had it almost exactly two weeks before his step daughters wedding. Timing on that one.