2 RV's, 1 to Reno NV, 1 to Davis CA (delivered)

... spending the night at Livermore CA

We are both awake before the alarm goes off, that happens when you are two time zones from home.

Breakfast is an apple, a muffin and a breakfast bar. Plus a short bottle of water.

We pull out about 7:30. 25 miles on the freeway then less than ten on the city streets. BB stops to put in the final paid fuel and I go and find a place to park.

I park in a strip mall parking lot adjacent to the RV dealer and then walk over and wait for BB. We have to wait a little for someone to come and check out / check in the RV. The whole thing takes an hour and we are ready to go.

When we leave CA I still have an excess range of about 25 miles, same as when I fueled yesterday.

2nd stop is the rest area near Gold Run.

I keep a close watch on my range the rest of the trip. 25 miles range can quickly disappear.

3rd stop is for fuel in Davis. My range has gone up to 39 miles by the time I fuel. This has been a rare happening. The range often either goes way way up or goes away. Fuel light comes on with a range of 50 miles.

Two blocks down the street I park and BB walked across the street to pick up our rental car. It took a while as we were early and they needed to wash it before she could pick it up.

I wait on the street this time, once she has the car we transfer our luggage before I deliver.

Another block down the road and I am at delivery. We've been here many times, I know where to go. I park and go in to the office. The inspector we know is eating his lunch. I ask where he wants me to leave the paperwork and leave it with him.

Because he is on lunch, we are here over an hour. But he finds no issues, we sign off and are ready to go.

I call the bus dispatcher now and a few more times before I finally leave a message saying I will call back about 3 PM.

We do our usual next stop at In-n-Out Burger. It is raining so we go through the drive thru then park and eat in their lot. Today we each get a single cheese burger and a drink.

From here we head down to Livermore. About half way there I pull off and call dispatch again, this time he answers. No bus for me today. And all he will say is 'it depends on what they release tomorrow' about anything else. BUT he did mention that Monday is a holiday so they will be closed. So if we stay over the weekend it will be a three day weekend. And it is rainy weather so even less for us to do.

We drive by the bus lot and there are a lot of buses. The only ones we remember are the two going to MN, but there were a lot of others. Then we see that the normal place they park buses is tore up. So it is hard to tell how many extra buses there actually were today.

Final stop is the Quality Inn in Livermore. The price is right and we were headed here when we found out there would be no work.

An hour plus later we order our food from BJ's and then go pick it up. When we are heading there we see lights from a cop car so we get over one lane, but then we realize the car is moving. Once we are closer we see it is following a car without lights and it has been dark for hours. At first we think it is escorting it off the freeway, but once on the city street it finally stops. After we pick up our food we see that the cop is finally showing the driver that his lights are out.

Our food wasn't ready so we still had to wait for a while. I don't understand the covid regulations. The tents that most locations use are closed on all sides with no fans. How is that better than four walls with ventilation?

I get chicken and noodles and BB gets a salad. Plus a cookie and ice cream. This place makes their own pop so I order both a Black Cherry and a Orange Cream soda. About four times as much liquid as I usually drink. When I ordered it I wasn't thinking of the fact they fill the cup half with ice. So what I don't drink will be watered down.

But I drank one, and poured the other one into the empty cup without the ice. Neither was that good. Glad BB talked me out of getting the 64 oz size.

Earlier today when I was driving I got a call from the RV dispatcher saying they had plenty of work. Ah ... yeh. And I am still on my last trip, almost 2,000 miles away.

Looking at the weather, the only place that won't be an issue is right here. And south to the border. And we might be able to get to Phoenix.

Earlier today they were checking for chains on I-80 at Donners Pass. Earlier today, I-80 was closed in WY to high profile vehicles. If we were going to go the south route, there are high winds in CA and snow by the time we get to NM. Right now the Weather Channel is talking about all the terrible weather than is happening NOW so I haven't seen a forecast.

Load board

US - 357

IA - 164

MN - 3

WI - 9

There are two runs in CA that might be interesting. But we can't pick up until Monday. The third one is down by LA heading to NM.

IF, if we get a bus going to MN tomorrow ... we will take our chances and go the south route. If we went the north route, we would have to push it until about 10 PM to make it to Reno the 1st night. Donners pass is forecast to be closed Sat and Sun. Once we stop in Reno the storm would pass get ahead of us and we are unlikely to get in full days of driving until we get to IA. We are guessing this route would take at least two days longer than standard.

If we go the south route we again may have to drive short days. If we can drive full days, this route adds four hours but the fuel and motels are less so money wise we would come out ahead. And likely come out ahead time wise as well.

The high today at home was supposed to be -0-. We are in no rush to head home, just wish there was more to do out here.