2 RV's heading to Manteca CA (delivered)

... spending the night at Livermore CA

Breakfast - leftovers from last nights food truck.

We get a late checkout and then leave the hotel about 8:30. We have less than a mile to go so not an issue ?

Traffic is light enough at that time that we can get across three lanes of traffic and into the left turn lane to take a U-turn.

1st stop is the Valero for final fuel. Except they do not have diesel. Opps. And the station across the street also does not have diesel. So now we have to head back past the hotel to the Shell station. Taking a left here would be having to cross 5-7 lanes of traffic so we took a right and then got into the center turn lane. As soon as there was an easy spot, we took a left into someone's parking lot and made a U-turn.

2nd stop was the Shell station for final fuel. I could not read the screen on this pump so I did not know what it was asking. And when I tried to pull my card out it would get stuck. Tried it twice before going inside. Pre-paying inside does have its advantage. We are supposed to put in $20 of fuel. If you pre-pay that is all you are going to get. BB did not pre-pay and put in an extra $.07 which comes out of her pocket.

3rd stop was the drop. We are a couple of minutes late and the lot is full. And it gets fuller, people coming later have the tails of their trailers sticking out into the street. I was not standing so I could see if anyone was ever parked on the street.

As soon as BB checks in, she heads to the rental car place. It is a block away. But they are not ready for her and the RV place has my unit inspected before BB is back. It takes about 45 minutes for my inspection and about 15 minutes for BB's inspection. They will only make appointments for one RV an hour but they got both ours done within the hour.

4th stop is back at the hotel for a couple of hours before we head out. We get our paperwork sent in, and we get paid before we leave.

5th stop is a cemetery in Turlock. That is our/my time off hobby that can be done anywhere. I have an online list of for the whole country that is 'never ending,' and BB likes having a quite place to walk. Temps today were close to 80 degrees but there was a nice breeze. Today we spent about two hours here, usually it is closer to an hour before we move on.

Before we left the cemetery I called the bus dispatcher. Nothing today for me. There were a few buses but there also were drivers who have been sitting in the hotel over the weekend. Company is going to pay so we reserve a hotel near the shipper. If we were going to pay we could have gotten one for half that price but the hotel needs to be near the shipper, we found that out the hard way one trip.

5th stop is at the Quality Inn in Livermore. There is a line to check in even with the high rates.

After we check in we order food online and then head past the bus place. No local buses for where I live, that was three months ago when we were here that they were building those. But we do see two Milwaukee buses, so maybe. Other than that the two we can ID are Sacramento and Delaware. Lots of red buses with no markings and just lots of buses including lots of electric buses that will be flat bedded out. There is a new fenced area to store buses across from the plant. It sounds like the shipper is 'dozens and dozens' behind and it looks like it.

Then we drive past the Avis to see if I can get near the location with a bus. This Avis has a big lot, I should be able to pull the bus all the way around the building. And the street was wide and quite enough that if the bus is a 'short' bus, I should be able to make a U-turn in the middle of the street. Now we just need to find out if they will allow an afterhours drop.

Those two stops took a little longer than thought so we are way past when our food was supposed to be ready. BJ's. Just one cookie this time :) and that was still more than enough.

BB had soup and salad and I had chicken alfredo. For that price we could have almost had someone come to our room and cook for us :( But the food is good and we eat a lot of fast food.

Load board

US - 572

IA - 231/227

No plans for tomorrow yet.