1 city bus to Beaumont TX

... spending the night at Holbrook AZ

Alarm went off as usual, a little harder getting up after a long, long day. But we stayed on schedule until ...

... we went down for breakfast. It has been a while since we have been here, we forgot that it is a sit down, server, made to order breakfast. It took a while to get the breakfast and even longer to eat it.

We ended up leaving a half hour later than usual.

Before we headed out I had a little back and forth with email trying to find out more about up coming trips. By the time I got a non-answer the trips were gone. (Now there is a new one so we will try again tomorrow)

I get in the wrong lane close to the freeway and am trying to get where I am going when I first see the bus. By the time I get on the freeway I realize that it is not likely a local bus. I follow it for almost 100 miles before I can get close enough to read the info on the bus. (These buses limited to very close to the same speed, but I have a fraction of a mile more) The bus is going to the Raleigh Durham NC area. Then ...

1st stop. We stop, they do not. The stop is the rest area near Essex for a break.

When I get to the AZ scale, first I get a message to by pass and then if flips to must exit. I exited. I did not see anyone but a voice came over the PA saying I was free to go.

The exit to the first truckstops is backed up out onto the freeway. Glad we are not to exiting here.

Where we did exit in Kingman there were two left turn lanes. We almost always take the outside/right left turn lane so that we can swing wind with the bigger units. This time there was an older RV in the left left turn lane and as often happens people do not stay in their own lane, they came over the white line into my lane. I had no where to go but the sidewalk so I hit the breaks until they made their turn and got back in their lane.

That is when I noticed that they did not have a right hand mirror. And in an RV you can not just look over your shoulder, this person was basically driving blind. So I backed off, they came over the white line again and then switched lanes and pulled in front of me.

2nd stop is for food at the Panda in Kingman. We usually like to stop at truck stops but in this area they are all 'zoos' to get in and out of. Some we looked up the WalMart and parked there and walked to the one of the closest food.

3rd stop stop is the Loves in Williams for fuel. It looked like the car islands are full so I pull around to the truck pumps. The one I need is opening up but I will need to back in. The place is busy and people are not moving their trucks but no-one blocks me in so I can pull out when I am done fueling. On my first two stops I could only get 3,000# pressure so I thought that the bus may have been set to that. But here I get my max of 3,600#. So I will not need to be stopping in Winslow.

BB is looking online and the road north out of Flagstaff is closed because of a wildfire. We can not see it from the freeway.

Freeway ... road construction. The road near Flagstaff was narrowing to one lane because of road construction. I backed off a little to let in an RV, and the car behind it came right over on me almost hitting my front bumper ... they never looked over their shoulder, just followed the RV ahead of them. But I do not need any kind of an accident on my record ...

But Grrr... Loves still will not let me us my personal card on the diesel islands. I could for years, but then my 'rewards' card went bad and I started a new account. It's been three (?) years with the new card ...

Somewhere before we shut down for the night I saw a couple of truck tires laying in the ditch. That was not the note worthy part. One of them looked to still have the original paper tags on the tread. That would be a few hundred dollars laying there.

And somewhere today, we saw a dirty pickup sitting in the ditch. And the cops out measuring the skid marks. The truck had rolled but landed upright. Most likely not too long before we got there. Clear day.

4th and final stop is the Quality Inn in Holbrook. It is the nicest hotel in this town :) A few changes in this town since last time we were here. The restaurant next to the hotel has been 'opening soon' for the whole time we have been staying here. Now it is open, and the food is good.

The place next door has a limited menu. 1/3# burgers. We should have just split one. Instead we each got one and cut it in half to save for breakfast. Then BB decides to eat all of hers so I do also. Bad idea. And she eats her half of the apple pie, that I did not do. I did save my for tomorrow. Very good pie.

While we waited for our to go food we walked for about 15 minutes. Other than las night we have been walking a little again most nights now that it is staying light.

Load board

US - 593

IA - 217/214