1 city bus heading to Laramie WY (delivered)

... spending the night at home

Hot breakfast. But none of the cold stuff, other than milk and juice. Eggs, sausage and pancakes. Gloves not required to use the service utensils. Could have been warmer.

When we were walking past the front desk they were talking about 'keeping an eye on the other motels prices.' As to not loose their customers too them and not under cut themselves if they don't need to.

Rolling by 8 AM.

GasBuddy says the cheapest gas is in Des Moines but we will be getting close to 'E.' So instead we find the cheapest gas in Omaha. Last week it was in Council Bluffs, this week it is the Loves in Omaha. NOW we have enough fuel to get to the airport. Yesterday we were at 37 mpg, today it stayed around 40 mpg. Running 70 mph in IA makes for better mileage than the 80 mph we were doing in WY.

We had talked about being home a couple of days before heading out again, but what day we leave effects how close we are to the weekend and if we will have to sit over the weekend somewhere. There are good trips heading back west but that could keep us out either against the three day weekend or over the long weekend.

At first we were looking at a NC trip but then decided on a SC trip because we know the routine. And it is better centered if we would have had to return the rental car to where we picked it up.

So while we are stopped for fuel at Loves, I call and get two Greer RV's. For some reason they said they were paying an extra $150 on the one I am moving. I didn't ask the why, just said thank you. BB will get extra because hers is a no-tow.

We now plan on leaving Monday and delivering Wednesday. Hopefully we can pick up a few miles from there yet Wednesday and deliver on Friday. Right now there are two heading west from there. One to AL and the other to AR. We drive right past one to drop the other. Not likely those two will still be there, hopefully something better :)

2nd stop was Culvers in West Des Moines. Finally get my blueberry malt. Other than two mini cinnis, that is the only sweets I had the whole trip. No cookies.

Last week on the way out we stopped in Williams at the Flying J for fuel. And someone was taking down the Flying J sign. Today the new one is up. Still a Flying J. Just the new style sign with the sun instead of the old sign with the plane.

3rd stop is the Pilot in Clear Lake for the rest room. Saw one of our drivers that used to work in the office for a few weeks. He was heading to TX. One other RV in the Pilot lot but didn't see the driver.

4th stop is at the lot to pick up our car. There are still RV's in the employee lot but our over flow lot is getting empty. As it should, we are down to 120+ on the loadboard. Two weeks left of the month, left of their quarter and they haven't started re-filling the lot yet. One of these days they are going to dump another 200 on the load board. Or at least on the lot.

It just took us a couple of minutes to move our stuff from one car to the other. No drivers to talk to today.

5th stop was at MSP to drop the car. Being the weekend there was actually staff at the rental return.

6th stop was for food and then home for the weekend.

Load board

US - 377

IA - 127

MN - 8

WI - 13

Even with 1,000 miles dead heading home and a $400 rental car we still did really good. Biggest factors were having a local car on the other end instead of a one way and having no down time between leg one and leg two.

By the looks of the load board we took the only two RV's off the IA board today. When we get home from this trip we may stay in town until after Memorial Day. Either work for the local company or not work at all. Or do some of the local work on the long haul board, anything that does not include a rental car.