2 RV's to Draper UT (delivered ?)

... spending the night in Rock Springs WY

Delivered? I will post on that tomorrow's post.

Breakfast was made order omelets.

At 7:30 local we are ready to go.

1st stop is at the Flying J for any final fuel 100 miles down the road. All lanes on the Interstate clear this AM.

After driving 45-55 mph for a good part of the day yesterday, I now have enough range to make it to my drop. Plus 5 miles. BB has 50 miles to spare. So I add two gallons to give me 30 spare miles and she doesn't add any fuel. We both wash our mirrors and lights.

Not happy with my cruise today. On some units, when you click up or down quickly, your speed goes up or down one mile per hour. Today, on this one, it doesn't. I end up having to turn off the cruise and turn it back on to re-set the speed.

And it doesn't hold the speed on hills. I had to use the brakes more times than I have had to lately.

2nd stop is the Hertz in Draper. After we get the car, we move all our luggage from our RV's to the car and then I head to get fuel and BB heads to the dealer.

There isn't a gas station close so I have to go two miles past and fuel at a Maverick and then wind my way back on city streets.

3rd stop Maverick for dealer fuel.

4th stop is at the drop. I go and and let the receptionist know I am there, they tell me where to park and wait. "some one will meet you."

15 minutes later, no one has showed up, so I go back in and ask if I can leave the RV there while we go get the 2nd RV? "no, we can't let you do that." So I wait.

1 hour goes past.

Then after an hour and a half later someone with a travel trailer arrives to deliver. They have been told the same thing. Now that he is there, BB has lost her place in line. If I can't leave the RV there without me in it, I will use the RV to go and get her RV.

We get the 2nd RV and I return and still no one has showed up. The person pulling the travel trailer has been in the office again and again told to wait.

Finally the other driver sees someone looking at a different travel trailer (a person I had seen a few times) and goes and talks to him. That person says to go to the shop and ask for ____. After the other driver heads to the shop, I comment to the employee what I was told and he said "And if you do that, enjoy your day here. The people in there don't know #&^*&^.

When an inspector does come out, he says he was never told that any RV's were waiting to be inspected (even though we had been to the desk multiple times)

I had let the travel trailer person go ahead because he was in front of BB. Once the inspector gets to us, he has us both inspected in 15 minutes. (after the two hour wait) Failure to communicate.

Before we went to get the 2nd RV, BB had gone to get us In-n-Out Burgers.

Once we are heading out, back on the freeway ...

Two overhead signs said 'I-215 two right lanes.' So I take the next exit even though there isn't any signage. It is onto a city street. It seems we have to take at least one wrong turn before we head out of town.

As we are trying to get back onto the freeway, BB looks up the correct exit number. Once back on the freeway, I see based on the signs that I want the 2nd exit. So when the right lane is going to exit, I get out of it. Too late I see that because of construction the next two exits have been combined. We missed it.

So we will head up to I-15. It adds two miles to our trip. And, over the weekend, it is the only route that the computer would give us.

Next stop is the rest area near Echo.

From there we have enough time to get back to Rock Springs. An extra hour would have gotten us back to Rawlins.

Final stop is the Quality Inn in Rock Springs. Tonight we get the room next to the one we had last night.

BB had ordered food online, but after paying it said it would be ready in a half hour. So we went to the motel and checked in first, then drove and picked up our food.

As I am picking up the food inside, BB is in the car looking at TripAdvisor to see how this place is rated. We were lucky. It was rated 6 out of 57 food places in town. We were glad it wasn't rated 60 ... out of 57. Food was good. Oriental.

We had thought that all our delays would cost us either in motels or car rental. So far it has only delayed us about four hours so we should be home in the evening instead of about noon but on the same day.

Up to this point, we were thinking we would be catching up to the storms crossing the plains. Now we aren't so sure.

(Instead, something else has come up that MAY effect our plans)

The only trucks in UT today were the ones heading to Portland OR so we are rental caring it all the way home.

Load board

US - 212

IA - 103

MN - 1

WI - 6

WEATHER - The storm in NE is dumping snow today. Road closers are due to accidents. Snow is also forecast in CA, feet. There wouldn't have been any place we could have headed that we wouldn't have hit snow going that direction. Great for skiers, once they can get the roads re-opened.