2 RV's, 1 RV to Greer SC, 1 RV to Myrtle Beach SC (delivered)

1 tree truck to Olathe KS (Tuesday)

... spending the night at Irmo SC

Breakfast - yogurt and juice.

We pull out the 1st time at 7:30 local. BB rides with me to pick up the rental car. At this location the airport is about one mile from my drop. I let BB off at the airport and head back to fuel and park my RV. BB picks me up from the gas station and we head back to the hotel.

We move BB's luggage from her RV to the rental car and she is on her way, solo. I head back to the gas station and move my luggage from my RV to the rental and also remove some of my heavier items from my back pack and leave them in the rental car.

1st stop was the Spinks for gas in Greer

2nd stop was my drop in Greer

I call my contact when I get to the drop, it is before hours so it goes to voicemail. I leave a message and wait. When no one has shown by 9:15, they open at 9 AM, I call again. After a dozen rings someone answers. They are not in town, they tell me who to look for. After finding the wrong person in the lot the correct person drives past so they know we are here.

Then after I talk to a sales person a 2nd time and the other driver waiting talks to someone else, a couple of sales people show up to do the inspections. Once they start, it only takes them 15 minutes and I am signed off and good to go.

From there it is about a 15 minute walk back to the gas station and my rental car. I am getting out of shape. :(

I should have been looking at the load board as I was waiting but I was expecting someone to show up ... any minute. When I did look once I was back at the rental car there were two non-CDL trucks going to KS. I called right away and put them on hold. Then I called BB but she didn't answer and she shouldn't. She was driving.

After a bit BB did call back so I pulled off at the next exit ...

Because of the size of the trucks, BB decided she did not want to drive one. So I called back to dispatch and just took the one for me.

The rest of the trip in the rental car is pretty un-eventful. I had looked at the map once and could remember most of the highway numbers.

My plan was to stop at the first rest area after I got on I-20. As I am passing a truck I see the exit for the rest area between his cab and his load ... Opps. But usually there are rest area's about every 30 miles so there should still be one more before I get off the freeway.

Sort of. The next one is a 'trucks only' parking lot (former rest area) with no outhouse. Change of plans.

BB had said she would be stopping at a Pilot at the exit where she got off the freeway. So the first Pilot I saw I got off to use the rest room. As long as I was stopped I looked at the map on my phone. The map shows I do not go under the freeway, that is now behind me.

But when I get back on the street my internal compass kicks in and I head to the freeway. Then I remember the map and take a quick u-turn on the street. I pull into the first parking lot and look again, I should not go under the freeway.

So I head away from the freeway, now I see that the signs are saying 'west,' and the coast is east. So I stop again now type in the TA truckstop I am at. Seems there are two Pilots in town and I keyed in the wrong one. 5-10 minutes lost on that one.

From here I just follow the signs for Myrtle Beach until I get closer. Then I have to follow the highway signs to get closer. I know the road I want to be on will come to a 'T' a block before the beach. I didn't realize I was looking for 'business US-17' until I got to the main US-17.

BB called me as soon as I pulled into the parking lot, she had seen me drive in. First thing now is eat. She hasn't eaten today and it is now 2 PM. Surprised she is still standing. She has had time to look online for food and there is a Manny's Deli a few blocks away.

Manny's is in one of these tourist trap buildings and it takes us a while to find the correct door. Manny's. One old guy working by himself, taking the order, making the sandwich and then ringing it up. One order at a time.

Good food. As hungry as we were we could still only eat half. I didn't see chicken salad on the menu anywhere but decided to ask. Yes they had it, it was good. But these sandwiches are too sloppy to eat so we sat in the car instead of eating while I drove.

We had talked about walking on the beach across the street but it was only going to be above 50 degrees for a short time and we now had work. That was a 'back up plan' for if we did not find work.

Opps, heading back I missed a turn and ending up on a business route through town. Other than time lost because of stop lights it was not any extra miles.

Heading back we follow BB route and stop at the other Pilot. Now I know where both of them are.

It will be dark by the time we get to Columbia so we'll stop there. Irmo actually. Our brother-in-laws Dad was living there when he died. We drove up to help our BIL pack some of his things on our day off when we were working for company #2 a few years ago.

Comfort Inn, Irmo. Over looking the Walmart parking lot. BB decided it was time to wash clothes tonight. Then when I was going to go get food, our clothes were going to be done so she stayed at the hotel. I was just about back when I remembered I had both room keys. She stayed to put the clothes in the dryer, but then waited in the hall until I got back with the food.

Food

We ate the first half of our sandwich at 2 PM and the 2nd half while I was driving at about 5 PM. So when we got to the hotel we were not real hungry. But we had delivered so it was time for a treat.

BJ's - pizookie, their trio. We ate half the ice cream and two thirds of the cookies. Enough.

Load board

US - 451

IA - 206/204

LOG trip

6:30 - Left Comfort Inn in Greensville SC

6:40 - Dropped BB at airport for rental car

6:45 - Greer SC - Spinx - fuel

7:15 - Left Comfort Inn in Greensville SC - BB heading solo to Myrtle Beach, I back to my RV

7:45 - Greer SC - drop

8:45 - Greer SC - left drop

9:00 - Mauldin SC - roadside - called BB

12:00 - Florence SC - Pilot

1:30 - Myrtle Beach - drop - pickup BB

1:35 - Myrtle Beach - Manny's Deli & Subs

3:30 - Florence SC - Pilot

6:00 - Irmo SC - Comfort Inn

7:00 - Irmo SC - BJ's