1 bus to Milwaukee WI
... spending the night at West Des Moines IA
No made to order omelettes here. Eggs, sausage, juice ... the usual.
This building has a north, west and south wing. The north wing has not been used since this chain took over. It is now in quite bad repair. I would not be surprised to either see that wing gone ... or the hotel down graded soon.
We pull out at about 8:30 / 7:30 local.
1st stop is in Cozad at the rest area. The older rest area's in NE have room for less than 10 trucks so I park with the cars :)
2nd stop is the Petro for fuel and food. But first I 'stick the tank.' My fuel gauge still shows 3/4 after 600 miles, this is about as far as I usually push it. Sticking the tank shows I still have a 1/2 a tank of fuel. So I should be able to get another 600 miles on this fuel and I only have 750 to go. No reason to fill the tank and leave 45 gallons in the tank at $5 a gallon. $225 that I don't have to leave in the tank.
Some of the truck stops have a 'fuel building' besides the main truck stop, BB looked at the food in there and decided she'd like to try some of the hot food. Stuffed cabbage. I asked for the chicken, they picked out eight legs and then wanted to know what I wanted for sides ... nothing, I said, that is too much chicken as it is. So instead they gave me a smaller order ... five pieces with no sides.
3rd stop was the Loves in Shelby for a break ... and some DEF.
4th and final stop is the Sleep Inn in West Des Moines. We had made reservations because it was the cheapest hotel of the ones we stay at and almost out of rooms. Tonight the lot is almost empty and there are lots of rooms, not sure what happened.
BB had wanted to walk to Quiznos and I was going to get something from Steak and Shake. At some point she decided that a steak burger sounded better. And a shake.
This AM I saw 2-6-7 transporters
2 - semi stacks
6 - RV's
1 - delivery van
1 - delivery van
1 - box truck (small)
1
1 -
1 - tree truck
1 - city bus
Early PM I saw 9-9-5-1 transporters
9 - semi stacks
9 - RV's
1 - box truck - clean harbors
1 - box truck (small)
1 - tree truck
1 - cement truck
1 - city bus
1 - semi tractor with a toad
Late PM I saw 3-5-4-1 transporters
3 - semi stacks
5 - RV's
2 - Delivery vans
1 - Tow truck
1 - Box truck (small)
1 - RV with a toad
(this is partially a mind test ... it is not going so well :) )
Load board
US - 503
IA - 231/225