1 city bus heading to Laramie WY

... spending the night in Laramie WY

BB ate the other half of her Subway sandwich from last night. I went down for breakfast and grabbed two yogurt and a water. I really don't need to grab two when they are the bigger cartons of yogurt. Forgot to grab juice, did not go back. They now had cereal and the waffle maker out. No eggs and sausage yet.

When I am driving a bus, we grab our first load of luggage when we go down for breakfast. This AM I saw a person ahead of me and was thinking ... I wonder if they are a driver. When we got to the door, they headed towards my bus, then I seen theirs right behind me.

So I asked where they were going, Aspin CO. We talked a few minutes. Yesterday AM we had not gotten our advance on this trip right away in the AM. We (BB and I) were watching it and I did get it before I called dispatch. This person had waited until she had her advance to buy her flight back to CA and they went up $100 in that time. This gal lives in FL and hasn't been home since Feb. She also runs for Horizon. We only talked a couple of minutes so I didn't ask what other trips she takes for our company.

1st stop is in Tooele at the Flying J for DEF. Plenty of open fuel islands so I was able to drive in instead of backing in. The tank does not look full when it starts to run on the ground.

2nd stop was Evanston. First was the POE. This officer wanted my exact current weight of the bus, not the GVW. So I had to go back to the bus, drive around and weight and then go back in. I don't remember having to do that in the past. I know with my other company coming into WY from NE I have driven 100's of buses and never driven across their scale.

Second stop in Evanston was for fuel. I am supposed to leave 5 inches of fuel in the tank. I have driven 400 miles since I last filled and now have 6 inches. From here I have another 400 miles to go so I will be leaving more fuel than I need but it is very hard to guess. This fuel gauge was close to right when I started it this AM but most of the rest of the day it has been at 15/16ths full.

Then we parked and had ... Subway. This place only has one table outside so we ate at the bus.

Before we left Evanston I called our settlement department. BB has now send my receipt in three times and they still haven't paid me. While I talked to them, they looked at my paperwork and it is there, correct, so I should be paid soon.

Then I called the drop and left a message. Before I got out of the parking lot the drop called back. Didn't really tell me anything I didn't know. But now I know I am going to the correct place and looking at it again, I know the best way to come in.

3rd stop was for the restroom in Green River at Loves. All diesel fuel islands are full. When we go past the Flying J only half are full. We have been avoiding that Flying J even before there was a Loves. Very congested.

4th stop is at the TA in Rawlins. This is the first time I have stopped there with a bus that someone hasn't asked if it was the bus to Denver :) I didn't go in, BB did.

Somewhere on this leg there was a cop that passed me with a car with CA plates just a car length or so off his bumper. Before those two got out of site, the cop had the car pulled over. By then they were to far away and too much traffic to see if the car had tried to pass the cop or what happened.

5th and final stop was Laramie. First we go beyond the hotel and stop for Papa Johns and Chesters. They didn't have a Hawaiian ready and I didn't want to wait so I asked if they could but pineapple on the Canadian Bacon pizza. They did. BB wanted Chester's but they didn't have any chicken fingers so she got regular chicken. By the time my pizza was ready, they had fingers ready ... but they hadn't told BB it would only be a minute. This time I remembered to ask for garlic butter. They are out. Until the next truck comes in. Sounded like they were almost out of biscuits at Chesters ... BB's tasted like it had been there a while.

Took the blacktop road to the Comfort Inn.

Load board

US - 419

IA - 123

MN - 12

WI - 20

The rental car place in Cheyenne called and left a message that are car will be at a different location for pickup. At least that makes it sound like we have a car. The rental car place in Laramie called and left a message that they will have cars ... as cars are returned. If we get the car in Cheyenne we will not need the Laramie and will cancel it.

Plan is to drive the hour tomorrow to Cheyenne to the wash. It is supposed to be raining tomorrow so hopefully not more than an hour at the wash. Then drop BB and the rental car place, there is now where for a bus to park. So we will meet up at the rest area before Laramie to transfer luggage (and measure fuel.)

So we hope to be out of Laramie by noon or 2 PM. I have done a round trip to Denver with trucks a few times in three days so we should be able to make it home in a day and a half. If so, we will be home Saturday night.

No plans for a next trip out yet. Before we left, we had talked about heading SE on our 2nd trip but now there is the fuel shortage. There are RV's heading that way and trucks coming back to OH/MI.

There are also more RV's heading to CA/NV. There are two heading to Gilroy where I dropped this last one. But still no rental cars. We would need to spot one RV in Livermore, pick up the rental car, drop the 1st RV in Gilroy and then shuttle back to get the 2nd one. Pay wise it may be the best deal.

Maybe when we are home I can get a couple of more seeds in the garden.