2 RV's to Wilmington NC

... spending the night at Wilmington NC

Breakfast - none. We didn't have to get up today so we didn't make it down for breakfast. We are still mostly on our own time zone.

Early this AM, the local - here - dispatcher puts four 'tractor's' out of VA. They make wood chippers at that location so I call them. Someone else had keyed the orders in ...

2,900 miles from VA to OR. Nice run and we are only about hour hours away. BUT that would only be one of us driving for the next two plus weeks and we don't make any money that way. And IA is going be busy this month. We will either stay south or head back home. But home will back closer to -0- on Saturday when we get back. Friday it will be closer to freezing and also Sunday. We will see how things go.

At 10:30 I went down to the front desk to check out and check back in. Last night we had gotten a suit using rewards points, tonight we are paying for a cheap room. But when I was checking out, I said I was there to switch rooms ... unless they they wanted to save on cleaning and leave us where we were. They left us in the suite.

Shortly after, we head to the airport to pick up the rental car. It is five miles away, very small airport, drop BB off at the door and go back to the hotel and wait for BB.

As I am sitting in the parking lot a lady walks up to the RV and I open the door instead of the window (?) She hands me a note and wants me to read it, I just throw it on the dash and keep listening to her. She was saying something about the guy she was with had taken her keys and wanted me to call the cops and report two people fighting in the parking. She was saying something about not being able to call them herself.

I decided BB would be there soon and didn't want to get involved so I said 'no.' At that point she wanted her note back. I gave it to her and she walked over to a car.

In a couple of minutes I saw her walking over to talk to some employees that were outside having a smoke. BB showed up so I am not sure what happened from there. (to me, she seemed like she was having an 'episode.')

Time to eat - We head to a Jason's Deli about a mile away. We get it to go and head back to the hotel.

Another nine trucks were added from NC, all going to PA. There are a couple of trucks coming out of PA within a couple of hours of the drop. But if we go north it will be to head back to IA.

We spend most of the afternoon hitting re-fresh but nothing more is added. No non-CDL trucks today.

Finally we had enough of sitting in the hotel and decided to go for a walk. I prefer not to walk city streets when we have a way out so we headed to the Carolina Beach State Park about 15 miles away.

No charge to enter the park. We walked for an hour with no rain. By the time we left I had the wipers on again.

On the way 'home' to our hotel we stop at McAlister's Deli. This AM I had a chicken salad sandwich and French onion soup. This PM I had a half a chicken salad sandwich and potato soup. Good food. Filling. We also split a chocolate chip cookie from each place. BB had salsa with her sandwich this AM so I ate the last of yesterdays chips and the salsa this afternoon (as if I needed more food)

IA is almost back up to 150, it likely was for a while today. There are three RV's heading to LA, but it is too close to LA for BB.

Mostly likely tomorrow we will deliver and then head north. At some point we will have to decide which trip to take. The trips that were added today were added before we would get to Creedmoor/the shipper. But often the trips are not added until late in the day, in that case we will be taking something that is already on our loadboard.

Load board

US - 398

IA - 147