2 RV's heading to Bozeman MT

... spending the night at Rapid City SC

Plan was to get going earlier so the alarm was set at 5:45 (I would have just skipped breakfast) So we were able to get out of the room at 7:15 but then there was frost on the car ... so we still ended up leaving at 7:30, our usual time.

1st stop is at the shipper - lots of drivers heading out today, I talked to a couple of them. One had one of the Salt Lake City ones, not sure it was the same one we were offered yesterday ... but it had no heat and no lights so the driver was getting switched to a different RV. The other driver was heading to CO will a rental RV, today we saw two new brands of rental RV's in the lot.

No issues for us, small units so we are inspected and ready to go in under an hour. My range says I have enough fuel and BB thinks she will gain enough range to make it the 1st two hours before fueling.

:) I have Sirius XM. I shut it off because I prefer the quite in the AM. Like most days, by about 10 AM I am awake enough to turn the radio on

... then at 10:15 the radio goes dead and a message appears 'You are on an unsubscribed channel.' If I had known that I would have listened as soon as I got in the RV.

2nd stop is for food and fuel in Worthington. Casey's was cheapest on fuel and so that we didn't have to drive to find food, we ate shelf food from Casey's. I had pizza and BB had a pre-made wrap. It was food. It was warm enough that we ate outside, sun was nice but where it was sunny it was windy.

SD scale is closed today so good thing we got our permits yesterday, otherwise we would be making calls today to find out what to do.

3rd stop is in Mitchell for a rest break at the I-90 Travel Plaza, currently a Holiday station.

At the first rest area past Mitchell, I see another RV heading our direction.

And before we get to our next stop I see a city bus in transit. I did not see any markings. It was white with yellow above the windows. Not really a good reason to be on this stretch of road. If heading to MN it is a few miles closer to take the back roads from WY up to Rapid City but it doesn't save much on time.

4th stop is for fuel at the 'Coffee Cup' in Vivian for fuel. We pull in right behind a bus but by the time we were done fueling we did not see any extra people in the store. The bus had parked on the other side of the building so we didn't see them after we pulled to the pumps. Nice clean place, we have stopped at a couple of them.

5th stop is the DQ in Wall. Subway is the other choice. Wall Drug has food but they closed an hour before we got to town.

BB had slowed down before we got to Wall because here 'winter wrap' is coming off. It is past rock chip season so we tore the rest of it off before we left. Mine didn't have any wrap on it ... maybe it was built last fall before they started putting on 'winter wrap?'

6th and final stop is the Sleep in in Rapid City.

Almost another 12 hour day. They are starting to be the norm.

We are hitting enough of a headwind that our mileage is going back down. BB has been shutting off her cruise at times because of the wind. This morning the forecast for wind by Vivian was going to be too high to drive, until an hour before we were to get there so we are watching the wind forecast at every stop.

Load board

US - 537

IA - 318/317

We did 523 miles today so we have just under 500 miles tomorrow. Tomorrow we will not have 45 minutes travel to get to our RV's or a 45 minute inspection but we will have to Port of Entry stops to add to our day.

We hope to be in Bozeman tomorrow night so we can leave one RV at the hotel Monday AM while we pick up our rental car.