2 RV's to Selma SC

... spending the night at Walcott IA

Alarm goes off at 7 AM, mountain time. 6 AM local. :)

We have been in been in the central time zone for a few days now and BB's phone still hadn't re-set. So we shut the alarm off and drifted in and out for the next hour.

Plan was to get to the store at 9 AM when the pharmacy opens. I had dropped off our van yesterday in case they had a chance to work on it. We hadn't heard anything so I called just before we were ready to leave and they said it would be ready in a few minutes. So we waited.

They had fixed it and taken it for a test drive. But we weren't even out of our town of 2,000 people and it was acting up again. Not bad, so we kept going.

First stop was the pharmacy, 2nd stop was near Northfield at the Flying J for gas. low fuel light came on as I slowed down for the ramp. A couple of years ago something got changed and now the low fuel light does not come on until it is laying flat on E.

3rd stop was at Burger King in Northwood for food. We were going to do the drive thru but right as we got to the speaker the van started acting up again so we parked it and went inside. Everyone was wearing their chin masks. Some even had then over their mouths, and a few had them over both their noses and mouths.

4th stop was in Forest City at the Kwik Star/Trip for fuel. I am still wanting to leave the van parked on full. This may be the last time this season?

4th stop part 2. Our lot. We get our paperwork, the dispatcher is busy on the phone and doesn't say anything directly too us. Even me just pointing they knew I wanted more logs. We know the routine.

We found our RV's and did our inspections in the usual 1 hour time. Today there were between a half and a dozen people there at one time getting ready to leave.

The number of RV's doesn't seem to be going down. In the employee parking lot there are now 7 rows of RV's waiting for run to get parked in our lot. Today was the last working day of the shippers year. The RV's are all ready to go, just no where to park them.

5th stop is Clear Lake at Pilot for fuel.

6th stop is Center Point at the Casey's for a restroom break. Here we decide where to stop of the night. 30 miles short of where we had hoped. Getting going that most of an hour later is what cost us.

7th and final stop is the Comfort Inn in Walcott. First we are going to fuel. Gas had been cheaper at the BP so BB ended up there, but right now fuel was cheaper at Pilot so I ended up there. I saved a penny a gallon. My rewards cards don't work and BB was across the street. I had to go inside and pre-pay because the pumps weren't working right. When they asked how much I was going to put in, I said $1,000. What ever I don't put in, goes back on the card anyways so I don't understand the reason for the question.

When we pulled in, I got out and kicked a beer bottle and a roll of toilet paper out of my spot. Both of us parked on top of towels and there was a full donut laying next to where BB parked. Almost looks like maybe the snow plow hit a garbage can and now the snow is melting and showing what was buried.

We order on line from Grandma's Kitchen next door. Walk over and pick up our food. I would have ordered more when we got there but they seemed a little busy.

No breakfast at all at this location. Later tonight we decide we will walk to the Arbey's in the AM and buy our own breakfast.

We got our route picked out for tomorrow. We hope to get to Chillicothe OH. That will leave less than 500 miles for Sunday.

Load board

US - 374

IA - 155

MN -0-

WI - 7

The good runs out of NC are gone, so what we are looking at now is to take one going to or near IN and then picking up an RV heading the rest of the way to IA, MN or WI.

Nothing will be added tomorrow, we will see what else is taken.