1 tanker, heading to Winnemucca NV (delivered)

... spending the night at home

Breakfast is already in a bag, so we grab it to go. We are on the road before sun up. Until sun up I drove 65 mph in an 80 zone. Then right before sun up we got to ND and the speed limit is 75 mph.

This car is doing really good on gas. 35.6 at 80 mph, after driving 70 mph in MN the last 250 miles we were up to 35.7 mpg.

Pretty much all day the roads would go from clear and dry to spotty ice and or web. I'd run the cruise when I could but a lot of the day I could not.

1st stop was a rest area in New Salem. Had something happen here that has never happened to me before. The restroom is open so I walk in, a gal is mopping (without closing the rest room.) I back out, but she says come in and leans the mop up against the wall and walks out as I walk in. As I am standing at the urinal, I hear the garbage being emptied in the men's restroom. When I turn to leave, I realize that the garbage can is directly behind me. ???

2nd stop was a fuel stop 30 miles down the road at the Flying J.

3rd stop is for food in Jamestown. Arby's for food and Exxon for the restroom. ND may not be locked down, but each city has their own rules. No inside ordering at fast-food places. Not sure how that works for Subway like places. Or maybe it only applies if the place already has a drive thru.

4th stop is in Moorhead MN for the rest room.

5th stop is in Alexandria for the rest room.

Then we stop close to home for Culvers and take it home.

BB was hoping that we could skip ND today and go directly from MT to MN. It has been a long road trip for her in the car. For a while we were talking about stopping early at a motel somewhere in MN. We could have the car for two more days.

ND flew past :) Well over 3,200 miles in seven days. Too much of it on iffy road conditions. We'd like to take a few days off ... but.

Load board

US - 398

IA - 178

MN - 2

WI - 22

The load board had gotten up to 185 at the highest today out of IA. We are guessing that about 10-20 loads were removed from the board but even more were added. It is going to take a long time to move 178 loads at 20 a day ... when they add 30 new ones.

We had only gotten a couple of inches of snow at the house. I shoveled before we drove on too much of it. Light stuff, much easier than the snow the day we left.

Tomorrow we return the rental car and turn in my paperwork.

Friday is a holiday and we will take this one off.

Saturday ... or Monday ... or ... we will likely leave again. But at least two short days off.