1 RV heading to Greenfield WI (delivered)

... spending the night at home

We ate all our food last night so hotel breakfast it was. One of three kinds of nuke sandwiches. And juice. No yogurt or fridge stuff.

We pull out at 7:30 AM. It is still raining. And cold. Later today my brother who lives 50 miles of where we were ... posted pictures of last nights SNOW. In the last days of May, but it is not June yet.

Early in this let of the trip, a semi pulls out to pass, but is over a semi's length behind me. He doesn't gain on me and the line behind him is getting longer. I finally back off five mph and let him pass. Then I speed up and stay on him for the couple of hours until the freeways split.

And I watch my current mpg. I found a spot about a truck length back where the fuel mileage was really good. So I stayed there. I switched lanes, he switched lanes. Reading on line now, I should really stay further back for a few reasons but it is the following distance I often travel. Just usually not for this long.

1st stop was one hour from the drop as requested. Today I put in two gallons of gas. At the Kwik Trip in Lake Mills. Right now I have enough range to get to my drop. But I have been bucking a head wind most of the trip. And I am already stopped.

And I call the drop, they tell me where to park when I get there.

2nd stop is at the Speedway for final fuel a few blocks from the drop.

3rd stop – my drop. I walk in and talk to the first person I see. They say wait by the door. I do. But in a few minutes we start to talk. The person must have been in the middle of something. When I was leaving later that person made a point of saying goodbye.

The person who did the inspection was out to my RV before I was done removing my stuff. I also said something to them that came across wrong … two for two?

It is still raining, I wait in the car with BB until they are done inspecting. Then I wait inside, for someone else to do a second inspection. I didn’t look at my paperwork until later, they marked down a ‘mark’ on the bumper. I didn’t take a picture of it. Or notice it. It doesn’t show up on my general pictures.

Three trips in less than three days. And the pay is good. Top 20% of our trips. I need to start a log so I know for sure which are the best runs.

4th stop – almost across the street. There is Culvers. The drive thru line is around the building so we go inside … that will also save us a stop later. Inside we order and wait, and wait, and wait. I see my sandwich sitting there … I should have timed it. Finally BB’s is ready, after other customers have come and gone.

We eat in the car as I drive. Good food.

Masks. There were not signs on the doors at Culvers and all of the staff and half the customers in line were wearing masks. Last night in Forest City for food, we sat in the car and ate. And I watched the people come and go, None of the staff was wearing a mask, and only one person our of ??? dozens … was wearing a mask. Other than me.

It is Friday afternoon on a holiday weekend. I’m not sure if we hit the speed limit the first hour of the trip home. Lots of slow and goes. Even one place we came to a complete stop for a few minutes. We never did see the reason.

5th stop was at the rest area near Portage.

6th stop was at the ‘new’ TA in Osseo. This is the an old truckstop that is now a TA Express. Snow is gone by late afternoon.

7th stop is home. We ate enough, too much, that we didn’t’ stop and eat again.

Load board

US - 502

IA - 197

MN - 11

WI – 11

We looked at the load board. We didn’t call. All of the former CA trips are gone. The MN trip from IN is gone. Three of the four Des Moines trucks are gone.

Near the end of the day, IA puts another 50 trips on the load board.

Most likely we will head to Albert Lea Monday night and call from the lot on Tuesday morning. We will spend the weekend looking at trips.