1 Pickup to Shakopee MN (Tuesday)

... spending the night at Worthington MN

Breakfast was eggs and bacon, with yogurt to go.

We have been in town since Friday night, the 1st night we spent at a hotel by the airport. In the morning BB still didn't feel up to driving so we moved to a hotel closer to our house for the next two nights. On Saturday we got a late check out and an early check in. On Sunday we did a quick trip to Walmart for a half dozen items. Other than that we have been hotel bound.

At 8 AM I call my dentist and get my appointment moved from Tuesday to today. I also email my local dispatcher about the phone call from last week. I never heard back from the dispatcher so I assume they had the load covered.

BB wants to get some things from our house so I drop her off before my appointment. Nothing new/good on the load board yet but she will call and either take the trips or will put them on hold if something comes up.

I'm in and out of my appointment within an hour. Two CA trips did come up but today is Monday and for us that is a four plus day trip. Meaning we would have to leave out on Tuesday and get there on Saturday, but can't deliver until Monday. Better sitting in CA than here but we didn't take them. Also they were not 'no-tow' so they would have paid $300 less that the last trips.

Finally at 2 PM a new trip out of Bemidji shows up and we finally make a decision. Nebraska. It should be 32 degrees when we pick up in NE instead of 10 degrees in Bemidji.

I call the dispatcher and we head out within the hour. I was home for about two hours, BB for three. She did get a few loads of clothes done in that time so we are good for another couple of weeks.

Sometime after we are on the road we get the email that I did get the trip. We want to get as far as we can tonight before dark so we can get the res to of the way plus back to the drop in daylight hours tomorrow.

1st stop is Owatonna for fuel at the Fleet Farm. Gas is $.25 cheaper than most places.

While we are there, I call the shipper. No one answers and it goes to voicemail, the mail box is full. At past locations that means that my contact is no longer with the company. Then I get a call from my log department. I don't have what they are talking about in front of me so I have to look at it later and now I have no idea why they called me.

We prefer not to drive after dark but we also want to get as far as we can tonight. We plan on getting to Worthington. After that there is not another large hotel until Sioux City IA another hour and a half from Worthington.

BB orders online from the Hickory Lodge. It is inside a ma and pa hotel. It was built as a Holidome but has had lots of names over the last 10 years. I think the last chain name it had was a Rodeway Inn. But the restaurant has stayed and still has good food.

2nd and final stop is Worthington. First at the Hickory Inn to pick up our food and then the Comfort Inn for the night.

The Comfort Inn is supposed to have drinks and snacks M-Th but we didn't see them and didn't ask.

Good food. I had a Philly and loaded hashbrowns. Unfortunately a lot of places use PepperJack cheese on Philly's, as this one did. Way too much kick for me. But the hash browns did help cut the burn. BB had some kind of shrimp.

Load board

US - 251

IA - 56/50

Plan is to pick up tomorrow around 10 AM and drop back in Shakopee around 5 PM. If no good RV trips show up, there right now is still the Bemidji and also another one coming out of NE, but the next one is going to IA. It is roughly the same number of paid miles but leaves up another hour from the RV's compared to Shakopee. But new trips are added daily.

LOG (like)

2:00 - Call dispatch

3:00 - Leave home

4:15 - Fuel in Owatonna

6:30 - Arrive in Worthington for food and Comfort Inn