2 RV's to Draper UT

... spending the night in Lincoln NE

6 AM alarm. Leaving the house by 7:30. -0- but our 20 year old van started. (and the doors opened)

'Rush hour' traffic isn't anymore. Sailed through at the posted.

1st stop was in Owatonna at Burger King for breakfast, two croissants and an OJ.

2nd stop was Kwik Star for fuel in Forest City. I like to leave any car on full this time of the year.

3rd stop was the office / lot to pick up our RV's. It looks like there are about 100 more RV's sitting on the shippers side of the street. Seems to be where they park them if the customer isn't ready or if they are waiting on one final part. So we should have more soon.

A few people picking up RV's this AM including two semi's. My RV was easy to find. They put an orange card in the window with the unit number on it. Except my RV had sat in the sun so long that the card was more white than orange. Sitting there for just about 4 weeks waiting for a driver.

Pay shows it. My fuel pay is $.13 a mile less than BB's because fuel has gone up that much in four weeks. And no extra fuel on board.

I think there is only one type of RV here that has a nut and bolt where you attach the license plate. Most of them we are screwing into plastic that has stripped out because the mfg had their air pressure set too high. Today BB had one that was stripped out so she had to attach her plate with only one screw. Holding so far.

No issues and we are ready to go by 11 AM. Then a half hour drive to Clear Lake for fuel

4th stop in Clear Lake at the Flying J / Subway for fuel and food. Everyone else in town had gas for $1.99 except Flying J, theirs was three cents more. And we get a three cent discount. So no cheaper, not higher. We fuel there so that we can eat at the same place.

It is up to 10 degrees above zero, but no one else was eating in Subway so we did eat inside. There were a few customers waiting to order but everyone had masks on today.

Roads are clear but we can see where people have been in the ditch since or during the last snow.

5th stop is the rest area near Ankeny.

6th stop is the rest area near Adair.

By the time we get to Adair we decide we will have enough time to make it past Omaha and get to Lincoln. We had been looking at other options in Omaha as the motel we used to stay at will not allow anything heaver than cars in there lot now. We will miss the good Mexican food next door.

Omaha. One of the exits was closed do to an accident so traffic came to a stop. Gawking? Or people just don't know what to do when they can't exit. As soon as we pass the exit traffic was back to normal.

7th stop is at the QT in Gretna for fuel. It may have been cheaper somewhere else but this is where we stop and we are creatures of habit. From here BB makes a motel reservation. It looks like we lost about 15 minutes because of the gawkers slow down but it will still be light when we get to the motel.

We had waited to book our motel because it looked like there may be snow around Lincoln but it stayed south. We are also watching the weather to stay ahead of the storm tomorrow and then come in behind the storm in WY. I don't remember what we are watching for in UT.

Today BB gets the 'truck must enter' at the scale but I didn't. Someone has to be watching the traffic because these are RV's under 10,000# so they shouldn't even trip the sign. But is someone is watching they can see we are running on transporter plates and placards.

8th and final stop is the Quality Inn in Lincoln. As soon as we check in, we order food from Cracker Barrell. Friday night and the place is packed. Not sure wearing your mask for the 10 minutes before you get your food is doing anyone any good. Ours was to-go.

Load board

US - 224

IA - 124

MN -0-

WI - 5

On the way to pick up our RV"s this AM we talked about doing a couple of RV's to WI when we got back. But tonight the last of those RV's are gone. The shortest pair of no-tows now is Rockwell TX, a three day run and we have one day before we want to be home.

Someone posted on FB that Hertz has cars for $10 a day from the west coast. That is unusual. But we looked at it and the cars are from specific locations to specific locations and MSP is not one of the locations. We would have to drop somewhere else and get a 2nd car coming home. Worth it, if they are still there when / if we end up on the west coast without work.

7 trucks in SLC ... going to Portland OR. Nothing coming back to the midwest, Yet.