1 RV to Huntley IL
... spending the night at Rockford IL
For some reason I hadn't slept well in the middle of the night but I was out when the light went on at 7 AM. We had an hour to get ready, plan was to leave as soon as we called for our trip.
When it was almost 8 AM, I asked BB 'it the trip was hers.' She said it was too early to call, but I had been meaning the trip was hers vs it being mine. I usually do the calling and wanted to know before I called, but she was going to call this time. I didn't know ...
She called and got the run, we were out of the house in 10 minutes instead of the planned 5 minutes.
1st stop was the IA Welcome Center in Northwood.
2nd stop was the lot to pick up the RV. Dispatch asked again if we could take more runs. Not, now.
We did five other drivers picking up RV's today. One was heading to New Brunswick, another was heading back to the Hershey RV show for the (?) time. I didn't hear where the others were going.
As we left town we saw the Casey's was dark again, no customers. Not sure what is going on there.
3rd stop is the Pilot in Clear Lake for fuel and food. No line today at Subway, good thing as they were training in two new employee's. I think they might have been last time too.
Lots of corn 'lodged' both north and east of Waterloo. Some of it is like oat fields where huge parts of the fields are laying down, other fields look like maybe one out of 50 stalks are still standing.
Lots of patrols out today, all the way from home. Saw one place in IA where a car had recently rolled. Two patrols were on the scene but no one else.
4th stop was Independence at the Walmart for a break. Not much for rest area's or truck stops on Hwy 20. I did see one east of Dubuque, I just need to remember it is there. It may be a viewing area without restrooms so I better look again.
Somewhere later in the day, a dispatcher sends me a message. They have two trucks near Duluth that they would like me to move. Too many miles for right now, but any other time it would work nice. Pick up the truck, drop our car at home and then no car in IA when we come back.
5th stop is at a Stockton travel center for food. They have a Mc'D's. While we were there eating, I was looking up to see where food was near our hotel. I didn't realize until later that was a waste of time, this WAS our supper. But it did help know where our hotel would be.
From here BB makes our hotel reservation. When she first tries there are no rooms, after checking another nearby hotel she logs out and then back in and there are rooms. This hotel costs half the hotel points as the other hotel we were looking at.
6th and final stop. The Sleep Inn. At this exit in Rockford there are 10+ hotels right next to each other, most are higher end but there is also a former Motel 6 and a Super 8.
After checking in we went for our evening walk. No sidewalk so we walked in a few parking lots to get to a sidewalk a few blocks away.
BB had looked before we picked up her RV and the car rental price for last weeks trip had dropped from $300 to $100 for a one day one way. Things are getting back to normal. And the cash price for our hotel tonight was back in the $50 range instead of the $100 range.
Load board
US - 235
IA - 125/124
MN - 15
WI - 2