2 RV's to Grand Junction CO (delivered)

... spending the night at Fort Morgan CO

Last night before we went to sleep, we could here some guy yelling 'F' this, 'F' that. After that I went to sleep, but BB said she could here them 'enjoying themselves' through the walls. Doesn't happen too often but it happens that we do not get silence with our room.

Breakfast. The basics. But riding up in the elevator, because we were on the 4th floor, when the elevator stopped, it stopped so abruptly that it spilled half my apple juice. Elevator was carpeted so no slip hazard just a wet spot.

Yesterday coming through Denver it was 90+ degrees. This AM when we have to walk outside to get to our breakfast it is down in the 30's. Glad we looked and I grabbed my jacket last night.

Different time zone, we head out at 8:30 AM central time.

1st stop is across the freeway at Shell for fuel. We have 140 miles to go, I am/I was getting 13 mpg so I put in 10 gallons hoping my mileage will go up so that I do not need to stop again.

2nd stop is at Rifle at a rest area. BB's limit is about 120 miles between stops and this was 140 so we stopped half way.

We are trying something new, again. BB parks her RV at the airport and walks to get the rental car. Then she comes to pick me up from the drop.

3rd stop is the TA/Conoco for final fuel about a half a block from the drop.

4th stop, the drop. No one ahead of us but it takes them an hour for each unit. That, compared to our drop in Manteca where it takes about 15 minutes per unit. They did write up a couple of scratches on mine but they had moved my RV a few times by the time I got my paperwork so I did not get any pictures of it and am not too worried about it.

We get back from picking up BB's RV about the time they are done inspecting my RV.

There is a truck in SLC going back to WI. It would tie in nicely so we spend some time talking about it. We started before we saw how long it was taking them to do the inspections. At first we thought we would be able to get the five hours to Salt Lake City before the shipper closed.

Then we realized that that was not going to happen so it would have to be a Saturday pickup. If it is a Saturday pickup, that means we would have to do 1,500 miles in less than three days as I want to be home Monday night and the drop is four hours from home.

We did a lot of talking, options, what-if's. Then as BB is looking online at the info she finally saw ... MONDAY pickup. That's not going to work :( So we will be deadheading home.

When we are done there we head to McCallisters for lunch. We eat outside in the shade. Busy place, even after 1 PM. Someone ahead of us commented about the line ... and the reply was an apology ... followed by ... 'and another employee just walked off the job today.'

By the time we are done eating and ready to leave it is after 2 PM and we have 1,200 miles to go in less than two days.

5th stop is No Name rest area near Glenwood Springs in the Glenwood Canyon. I did take a couple of pictures there but then when we were deeper in the Canyon BB took more pictures. As she put it ... when we see the sights we are seeing 360, the camera sees about 100. Huge difference what the camera can capture. Beautiful area.

No one skiing today at either Loveland or Copper Mountain but still lots of snow in the higher ups.

6th stop was at a rest area in Georgetown. It was not in our 'travel book' so it was an un-planned stop.

7th stop was for food at an Arby's in Brighton. They forgot our water, then handed us bottled water and said 'water is free.' (I think they just didn't want to do a void) And they gave BB the wrong salad dressing and didn't give her a fork. But I did get a chicken salad sandwich, they are back. Wait, that is also what I had for lunch. :)

After we left there a pickup and a car flew by us at 100+ mph, we were doing 75. Later we saw them on a ramp, not sure if they were together or one was chasing the other.

8th and final stop was in Fort Morgan, first at the Maverik for fuel, under $4. Then two miles to the Comfort Inn for the night.

Load board

US - 588

IA - 299/295

From here we have a 10 hour day tomorrow, at 70-75 mph and then the last three hours Sunday morning.

Not likely we will pick up any extra work coming back, tomorrow is Saturday and very, very little gets put on the loadboard over the weekend.