2 RV's to Davis CA

... spending the night at Elko NV

Last night before we went to bed the heat quit working in our room, so I called the front desk and they said they would contact maintenance. An hour later maintenance hadn't shown up and the heat started working again. And was fine the rest of the night.

Breakfast. I threw my leftovers and had a made to order omelet. Kind of unique to this location, they have a few other things but no eggs and sausage and no yogurt.

We think we have enough fuel to get to Evanston and there is a TA about 20 miles before so we should be good.

We see the truck of junk again today. Just as I was catching up to him he pulls to the shoulder. And I did get a better look. Still not sure what it is, but it does have windows in the 'box' area. So now it looks like a box that was converted to a motor home ??

1st stop - Flying J in Evanston for fuel. We made it, our low fuel lights came on but our range was still showing when we got there. The wind has died down all across WY so our mileage is going up.

While we are stopped I call for our NV permits. As we are sitting there I am watching the traffic come up to the stop light. A semi pulls up to the red light and his hood flies up. At first I thought I was seeing things but then he got out and anchored it so I did see right.

I like these Ford's, the rpm's have only gotten up to 2,500 both up and down the hills. No having to use the breaks because they get going to fast. Huge change from the ones we drove a couple of years ago.

Smog. Brown haze over Salt Lake City. Sign's saying to reduce trips.

2nd stop is at the Arby's in Tooele. Actually Lake Point, there is also one in Tooele. We've kind of avoided this place because it is hard to get out of but we didn't feel like Flying J pizza today.

We had looked at a map and we could take a right out of Arby's and then a left once we were on the main highway and then make a large u-turn if needed. But traffic wasn't that bad today.

The water along the highway west of Tooele was completely still today. It would have made a great picture of the haze wasn't so thick.

3rd stop was the rest area east of Wendover. Time for a break and we can't cross the border into NV until 3 PM. So we take a short walk on the salt. I hadn't noticed before but there are 'No Trespassing' signs at the edge of the salt flats. That doesn't keep people from walking and driving out there. We just walked along the edge for a while until it was time to go.

I doubt it would be a big deal to be a few minutes off when entering or leaving the state but I drove slow so that we crossed into NV at about 15 seconds after 3 PM.

4th stop was Wells at the Flying J for fuel. We aren't on 'E' yet but fuel prices go up from here to the drop. We had planned on having our last fuel stop be Battle Mountain tomorrow, but our mpg has finally started to go up. So it may still be Battle Mountain but we may not fill there.

5th and final stop was Elko. First we check into the Comfort Inn and then walk to the Pizza Barn to order food. And we walk for another half hour along the store fronts. When we got back to the hotel we got an email asking if we were still looking at refrigerator at Sears ??? We had walked past a Sears on our walk but how does Sears know that and our email?

A couple of days ago I had bought 'Ice Mountain' water at a gas station and paid cash. And an add for Ice Mountain shows up on Facebook. ???

We got our food to go and ate at the hotel. I had my hot rueben type sandwich and BB had a turkey sandwich. Even half of mine was too much. Leftovers for breakfast again?

Load board

US - 312

IA - 143/141

MN -0-

WI - 6

Lots of auction stuff, I'm not even looking anymore.

The trips from IN to MN are all gone at once, I'm guessing the shipper found someone else to move them.

We still have not seen any of our buses heading east. One RV past us and we met a couple of transporters but not much.

Another 400 mile day tomorrow, we need to be out of NV by 2 PM so we will get going about 7:30.